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Old Islamic Tile Patterns Show Modern Math Insight
arbitraryaardvark writes "Reuters reports that medieval Muslims made a mega math marvel. Tile patterns on middle eastern mosques display a kind of quasicrystalline effect that was unknown in the west until rediscovered by Penrose in the 1970s. 'Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.' It isn't known if the mosque designers understood the math behind the patterns or not."
Oooh, look. That looks like a watch. There must be a watchmaker.
I'm pretty sure either aliens or reptoids built it, just like with the pyramids.
The Arabs got zero from the Indians through their trading contacts actually. See the Wikipedia entry: History of Zero.
Nah, that was just one of the first examples of outsourcing.
A more interesting link.
When I was three I drew the Mandelbrot set in crayons and moments later modelled part of the quaternian Julia set out of plasticine. It wasn't until I was 9 that I understood the maths behind it, which I think proves your point.
Just add a harvard symbologist, a beautiful egyption female mathematician, and a one-armed assassin for the plot of a Dan Brown book.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I know the feeling. I proved the Poincare Conjecture when I was 8, using a balloon a stapler. Unfortunately, I assumed it was trivial and never went public.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and nine other kinds of people.
Ah, I see. Proof by explosion.
Nobody knows, but the step after that will be Profit!
Free as in mason.
My mother fed me from a Klein bottle.
Youssef Abu Sufah, a British scholar of 12th century Muslim architecture and amateur mathematician summed up the almost unanimous response of the scientific, mathematical, and historical communities with the following observation:
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Hey, alien's built my house and it doesn't use any funky math...oh wait, you mean a different type of alien...
Well, I solved the halting problem when I was 11 and went on to overturn the second law of thermodynamics. But my dog ate the homework assignment before I could turn it in.
"It doesn't cost enough, and it makes too much sense."
That they couldn't do math, and the arabs couldn't write. They got together and made the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of math and english, which is what the SATs are based on to this day.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think. -Victor Hugo
We all know it's pure chance they stumbled into these mathematical patterns. What can Arabs possibly know about algebra and numbers in general? Oh, wait...