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Indonesia is a great country with more than 200 millions population. However, it seems that this great number has not been followed by the quality and substance. There are no great scientific discoveries or findings that can make us proud of, as the substantial contribution to the world civilization. In education, for example, we belong to the countries that are far below the level of the developed countries. We don’t have an established scientific tradition, stimulating great scientific discoveries and facilitating serious scientific researches.
Serial Lectures
“Serial Lectures on Philosophy of Science: Islam and Science”
Themes:
A. The Foundation of Islamic Sciences
1. Epistemological Foundation
2. Cosmological Foundation
3. Qur’anic Foundation
4. Ethical and Spiritual Foundation
Mathematics in the Islamic Scientific Tradition
Mathematics in the Islamic Scientific Tradition
By: Mulyadhi Kartenegara
Like other disciplines, mathematics, in the modern times, has long been divorced from its mother: philosophy or metaphysics. Consequently, mathematics that used to have a clear intermediary position between physics and metaphysics, now it has lost its secure place. Scholars have quarreled as to whether it is science or simply instrument of science. It is for this reason, among the others, that the majority of contemporary scholars in mathematics do not pay sufficient attention to the philosophical issues closely related, especially in the classical periods, to mathematics. Consequently, although these issues are very important for our understanding more deeply of mathematics, most of us now have no idea about them.
