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To: Dixie Yooper
Just imagine those same Muslims who brought us the beginnings of science building a space ship and landing on the moon!
What Arab Civilization?

You state, "its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption." The fundamental basis of modern mathematics had been laid down not hundreds but thousands of years before by Assyrians and Babylonians, who already knew of the concept of zero, of the Pythagorean Theorem, and of many, many other developments expropriated by Arabs/Muslims (see History of Babylonian Mathematics, Neugebauer).


20 posted on 09/30/2006 3:42:27 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
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To: the anti-liberal

a lot of what is attributed to arabs was actually invented in south asia and east asia. Arabic numerals are hardly arabic. Arabia is just where the west came in contact with the technology as it made its way across


56 posted on 09/30/2006 5:39:31 PM PDT by minus_273
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