Maths flourished in the early Islamic world from the 8th Century ... Such was the thirst for mathematics at this point in history that it sets what In Our Time guest Colva Roney-Dougal describes ...
The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob ...
Marcus du Sautoy visits Fez, where the ancient Islamic school of wisdom was founded, and where Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi wrote his ‘lm al-jebr wa’l-muqabala’ calculation by restoration ...