IBN AL-HAYTHAM

Who came up with the modern scientific method? You may answer: Isaac Newton, right? But delve a little deeper into history, and you shall stand corrected. Let us present to you one of the most eminent and inventive mathematicians in the early tradition of Arabic-Islamic science: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥaytham, also known as Alhazen or Alhacen in the West.


Born in Basra in 965 AD, he lived in Cairo, Egypt until his death at 74. He got educated in Basra which was a centre of learning in the world at the time.