old mosques and modern math
muslim tiles show old knowledge that in the west penrose wrote about in 1970ies
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arabs where known to be keen traders and scientists in a time europe was deep in the 'dark ages' ... the reasons why this is are many fold.
after astronomy, medicine, money and trade many more advanced knowledge is (re)discoverd to have been part of arab culture. true many things originate in asia - china and india mainly - but I find is specially intriguing that this highly visually pleasing and esthetic pleasing geometric patterns also have deeper mathematical roots.
discovering math in biological patterns was fun for the last 20 years for me, the same is true for works of art, architecture specially. why to certrain mathematical properties appeal to us ... cross culture usually? is it like rupert riedel postulated because our brain uses the same 'algorithms" (another work coming from arab culture) ... time will tell.
good news is, we still have a lot to discover and learn. be like children and specially be open to new things, ask 'why' and 'how' things are and work. even the most mundain things often hold interesting facets.
arabs where known to be keen traders and scientists in a time europe was deep in the 'dark ages' ... the reasons why this is are many fold.
after astronomy, medicine, money and trade many more advanced knowledge is (re)discoverd to have been part of arab culture. true many things originate in asia - china and india mainly - but I find is specially intriguing that this highly visually pleasing and esthetic pleasing geometric patterns also have deeper mathematical roots.
discovering math in biological patterns was fun for the last 20 years for me, the same is true for works of art, architecture specially. why to certrain mathematical properties appeal to us ... cross culture usually? is it like rupert riedel postulated because our brain uses the same 'algorithms" (another work coming from arab culture) ... time will tell.
good news is, we still have a lot to discover and learn. be like children and specially be open to new things, ask 'why' and 'how' things are and work. even the most mundain things often hold interesting facets.