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- Title: Some Upstream Research Programs for Muslim Mathematicians: Operationalizing Islamic Values in the Sciences Through Mathematical Creativity (Report)
- Author : Islam & Science
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 328 KB
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This article is inspired to a large extent by my reading and understanding of the works of Roshdi Rashed (1) and Imre Lakatos. (2) In my opinion their works, among those of others, (3) are very important for creative (4) Muslim mathematicians who want to reflect deeply on the meaning, scope, and goals of mathematics as well as on the nature of the truth and certainty (5) sought by mathematicians when they do, or rather, create mathematics. The foundational conceptual, meta-mathematical starting point here is to see mathematical creativity as "a human activity, a meta-process, which acts upon and generates new mathematics." (6) Although my discussion shall focus for the most part on Islamic mathematics, (7) Malay-Islamic mathematics, (8) and the Islamization of mathematics, (9) I believe that the underlying, more general thrust of this article will be of some relevance to all non-western mathematicians (10) who wish to develop philosophies, methodologies, and practices of mathematics that are more in line with their respective religious beliefs, cultural traditions, and value systems. (11) If mathematics, like science in general, is value-and culture-laden, (12) then, ipso facto, any theories, methods, and models developed in mathematics will accordingly also be value-and culture-laden. (13) As argued by Brian Martin, the Platonic conception of mathematics as value-free is itself a value-laden conception which only serves to hide from most people the intimate links between mathematics as such and the belief systems of its practitioners. (14) Or, in the words of Rev. Richard S. Kirby, who argues for a "theology of mathematics":
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