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Tag Archives: Thabit ibn Kurra
Reflections on our journey through the aliquot sums and sequences
The numerology of aliquot sums and perfect numbers The numerology of the Pythagorean sages among the old yavana-s is one of the foundations of science and mathematics as we know it. One remarkable class of numbers which they discovered were … Continue reading
Some personal reflections on Carl Gauss, Bernhard Riemann and associated matters
The biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi had famously remarked that as he successively, journeyed for a better understanding of life from cell biology, to physiology, to pharmacology, to bacteriology, to biochemistry, to physical chemistry to quantum mechanics he lost life between his … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged Einstein, Euclid, Euler, Gauss, geometry, Greek thought, Non-euclidean geometry, Riemann, Thabit ibn Kurra
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Constructing a regular heptagon with hyperbola and parabola
There is little doubt that Archimedes was one of the greatest yavana intellectuals. He would also figure in any list of the greatest mathematician-scientists of all times. His work on the construction of a regular heptagon has not survived the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Scientific ramblings
Tagged complex numbers, conics, Gauss, Geometric construction, geometry, Greek, heptagon, hyperbola, mathematics, parabola, polygons, Thabit ibn Kurra
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Iamblichus, quadratures, trisections and the lacuna of the cycloid
Today Syria has been turned into a hellhole by the unmāda-traya. However, just before the irruption of the second Abrahamism which ended the late Classical world, it was home to great men like Iamblichus. Hailing from a clan of priest-chiefs, … Continue reading
Fragments of West Asian heathen thought: late surviving Hermetica
To be read in conjunction with this. Many moons ago aurvasheyI brought my attention to a curious news item in an Indian paper – in small print it narrated a village conflict involving the deployment of what might be termed … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History
Tagged bahanamati, charms, Harran, heliocentric, Hermes, Hermetica, Islamic, Middle East, spells, tantra, Thabit ibn Kurra, Thoth
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The makings of "Islamic Science"
“In the time of the Hellenes and during the early days of the empire of the Rum the sciences were honoured and enjoyed universal respect. From an already solid and grandiose foundation, they were raised to greater heights every day, … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, Politics
Tagged history of science, religion, Thabit ibn Kurra
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