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Article: Some upstream research programs for Muslim mathematicians: operationalizing Islamic values in the sciences through mathematical creativity.(Report)
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- Islam & Science
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- December 22, 2008
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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 ...