To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.Islam Faces a New EraToday's Muslim world is also being betrayed by a similar intellectual passivity regarding the Internet, the dynamo of the next Renaissance. While the French fight an uphill battle to prevent English from laying siege to the French-speaking world via the Net, none of the major Muslim languages plays a major role in this huge knowledge machine. Equally conspicuous is the absence of Muslim countries from one of history's greatest scientific endeavors, the Human Genome Project. Islam is not intrinsically opposed to ideals of justice, equality, and human dignity. It is folly to assume that technological sophistication or economic prosperity need weaken, or run counter to, religious belief. Meanwhile, at some distance from the ivory tower lies the grim reality of much of the Muslim world: poverty; mass illiteracy; want of basic hygiene and primary health facilities; lack of fundamental liberties of religion and speech; little protection from state persecution.
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1999, Civilization Magazine
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And what they fail to say is that all the captured Pedants were sent to the regional capitals and the more significant Pedants were sent to the home capital.
Nothing was discovered by the muslims. Their captured peoples, given muslim names, gave their people and "culture" its "credance".
This is real Bullpuckey.
Please, I'm all ears.
Do give me credible, non muslim references and links about the existence of "arabic" math in 100 A.D.
I can hardly wait!
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This is a difficult question to answer since geometry has been around in one form or another as long as there has been written history. The Egyptians were making use of geometry to build pyramids even in prehistoric times. It was the Greeks, however who first began to rigorously study geometry and try to prove facts about it. Euclid was perhaps the most notable geometer of ancient mathematics and it was he who first axiomatized the subject (carefully defined the concepts crucial to geometry).
I believe you will find that Euclid lived about 1,000 years before Islam enveloped the Arabic world.
9 = 18
I'm sure this stunning math breakthrough led to them being able to produce a much better detonator for their latest bomb vests.
Makes the world a better place, I'm sure.
Designed by recently captured Christians.
Math ping!!
So, these 15th century potters were moonlighting as advanced mathematical theorists....riiight.
More:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070224/mathtrek.asp
(more clearly written with examples)
Algebra and zero came from India. The Muslim conquerers tended to look down on actual work, and most of the real work was done by their conquered, second-class citizens (dhimmis).
The Islamic "Golden Age" occured during the period where they had freshly conquered the established civilizations of Babylon, India, and the Eastern Roman Empire. When Islam no longer had fresh supplies of loot and slaves who knew how to run a civilization, their Golden Age came to an end
After that, the Arab race went into a period of decline that was only temporarily reversed when they found themselves in possession of a new source of unearned wealth -- oil
Mathematics In Ancient Egypt
Al-Ahram | 1-26-2007
Posted on 01/26/2007 6:09:50 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774358/posts
Africans Invented Arithmetic and Algebra [double bagger barf alert]
Black Voice News | Sunday, 27 August 2006 | Joseph A. Bailey, II M.D., F.A.C.S.
Posted on 08/30/2006 1:41:19 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1692648/posts