// FREE COURSE E · Everyone · history
Ideas That Built Your Phone: the Golden Age of Science
4 history episodes (normal history, for everyone): scientists of Baghdad, Cairo and Central Asia whose ideas still run today's tech. Long versions of the Golden Age Shorts.
2/4 episodes out5 min0 on YouTube0 cost
// EPISODES
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Each episode stands alone, but they build on each other.
012:38
al-Khwarizmi, the Digits and the Word "Algorithm"How algebra and algorithms got their names in Baghdad, and how India's digits 0–9 reached the whole world.Coming to YouTube soon
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2:45
Ibn al-Haytham — Light, the Eye and the CameraLight travels into the eye, the pinhole camera, and testing ideas by experiment — the idea behind your phone camera.Coming to YouTube soon
2:38
al-Khwarizmi, the Digits and the Word "Algorithm"How algebra and algorithms got their names in Baghdad, and how India's digits 0–9 reached the whole world.Coming to YouTube soon
022:45
Ibn al-Haytham — Light, the Eye and the CameraLight travels into the eye, the pinhole camera, and testing ideas by experiment — the idea behind your phone camera.Coming to YouTube soon
03SOON
The first programmable machines: Banu Musa + al-JazariAn automatic flute player (about 850) and the robots and clocks of 1206 — early steps toward code and automation.Coming soon
04SOON
Secret codes and measuring the Earth: al-Kindi + al-BiruniThe first known codebreaking method and measuring the Earth from a mountain — the roots of encryption and GPS.Coming soon
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