SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which branch of mathematics was developed in the Golden Age of Islam but became universally accepted in the Western World?
A
Calculus
B
Statistics
C
Algebra
D
Geometry
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Algebra. The study of algebra, the name of which is derived from the Arabic word meaning completion or “reunion of broken parts", flourished during the Islamic golden age.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spherical Trigonometry One of his major mathematical contributions was the formulation of the famous law of sines for plane triangles, a⁄(sin A) = b⁄(sin B) = c⁄(sin C), although the sine law for spherical triangles had been discovered earlier by the 10th Century Persians Abul Wafa Buzjani and Abu Nasr Mansur.

Detailed explanation-3: -Muslim mathematicians invented the present arithmetical decimal system and the fundamental operations connected with it – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a power, and extracting the square root and the cubic root.

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