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YouTube Links for the Project on Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences by Lynn Butzlaff, Summer 2020 (and Other Students)

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Digital Storytelling Videos

• Challenging the Classical Narrative
• Roots of Copernican Revolution
• The Beginnings of the Scientific Method
• Ibn al-Haytham and Optics
• The Role of Religion in Scientific Progress in the Medieval Islamic World
• Observatory: A Legacy of the Islamic Civilization
• Beginnings of Algebra in the Islamic World
• Ideas of Calculus in India and Islamic World before Europe
• History of the Decimal Point and Decimal Fractions
• Al-Kashi: One of the Great Mathematicians of Islamic World
• A History of the Sexagesimal Number System

Some Other Related Videos Produced by Students

• The Life and Legacy of Thabit b. Qurra (Spring 2024)
• Mathematics Inspired by Islamic Religious Practices (Spring 2024)
• Al-Kindi's Cryptanalysis: The Origin of the Frequency Analysis (Fall 2021)
• Kitab al-Manazir of Ibn al-Haytham (Fall 2021)
• Construction of Beauty: Geometric Patterns in Islamic Art (Fall 2020)
• Ibn al-Haytham: The Eye of the Beholder (Fall 2020)
• Al-Kashi: The Seer of Stars (Fall 2018)
• The House of Wisdom and Banu Musa Brothers (Fall 2018)

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Animations and Illustrations of Some Mathematical Theorems, Formulas, or Constructions

· Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's proof of the sine law

· Abu al-Wafa's proof of the addition theorem for sine

· Abu al-Wafa's proof of the difference theorem for sine

· The Square Root Algorithm of al-Kashi

· Abu Sahl's construction of a Heptagon

· Ibrahim b. Sinan's method of constructing conic sections

· Solving Quadratics by Completing the Square

· Sexagesimal Arithmetic

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