Having my mind blown visiting the Alhambra palace. It’s sensory overload. How come so much of the art is geometric? Was it a fashion spawned by discovery or invention or what?
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I can’t speak for whatever religious factors may have come into play, but it’s worth remembering that during the Golden Age of Islam, a lot of our modern concepts of mathematics were first explored by Islamic mathematicians. To this day we still call algebra “algebra” for example, an ultimately Arabic word. It’s also why we refer to them as “Arab numerals”. These guys really loved them some math, and this no doubt managed to carry on into their creative expression.
tl:dr Muslims are some of the OG’s of math after the Greeks and stuff
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