Speaker
Prof.
Richard Kerner
(Sorbonne Université, France)
Description
Arab and Islamic Civilization emerged at the crossroads in a double sense, as a bridge between the Greco-Roman Antiquity and European Modernity in time, and as the junction between the declining Roman Empire and the still vigorous Indian and Persian civilizations in space. In this talk, we shall highlight the most important contributions of Islamic Polymaths to Mathematics and Astronomy, paving the way to the next stage of the development of science which occurred in the late Middle Ages in Europe.
