How math is related to Islam?

Answer 1

Islamic mathematicians contributed the concept of zero to mathematics. The concept of the number zero is fairly important.

"Al-Khorezmi was the originator of algebra and brought the Indian system of numbers (wrongly attributed to the Arabs here in the west) to the Arab countries. His name is associated with the word algorithm."

Islamic scholars translated Greek and Indian mathematics texts into the Arabic language during the 9th century AD. Islamic mathematics served their religion when dividing inheritances according to Islamic law, predicting the rise of the new moon when each month began, and determining the direction of Mecca for the orientation of mosques and the direction to face when saying daily prayers. An Islamic mathematician wrote an introduction to algebra, and the English word algebra comes from the words al-jabr in the title. The Islamic mathematicians's name, Al-Khwārizmī's, is still in use as the mathematical term algorithm.

10th and 11th century Islamic scholars produced algebraic solutions of quadratic and cubic equations, and the algebra of polynomials with an infinite number of terms.

12th century Islamic mathematicians developed solutions for cubic equations and optics problems geometrically by using conic sections. They used tangents and cotangents in trigonometry, and added to the Greek Archimedes's investigations of areas and volumes.

13th century Islamic contributions included plane and spherical trigonometry and advances in the mathematics of astronomy, the theory of numbers, and a variety of new methods of solving equations.