How can people say Islam contributes nothing to science!

Friday, June 18, 2010

Ibn al-Haytham is amazing! According to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham)... "His contributions to number theory includes his work on perfect numbers. In his Analysis and Synthesis, Ibn al-Haytham was the first to realize that every even perfect number is of the form 2ⁿ⁻¹(2ⁿ − 1) where 2ⁿ − 1 is prime, but he was not able to prove this result successfully (Euler later proved it in the 18th century).^[10]"

And his amazing work on optics which laid the foundation for Western optical science. amazing.