The word “algebra” is Arabic isn’t it?
When you dig down into the history...it leads back to the Babylonians. It is true that the Egyptians were the ones who got into linear equations (lot of this seen in the Pyramids). So the term algebra is Arabic in nature.
If you were talking about geometric algebra...then yeah, it’d be the Greeks who developed this.
I don’t think this professor knows much about the historical side. It doesn’t matter who developed it....just that it works. She sounds like some loser who is continually looking for something to get all angry about. She might as well suggest that tampons are ‘white privilege’ because white guys from France developed them.
ITs like every islamic invention they lay claim to... its stolen.
The oldest algebraic expressions come from Sumerian clay tablets...The muslims springboard started with Diophantus and them capturing one of his 5 volumes of arithmetic and then translating it.
Islam is truly the pirates code.
Yes, but don’t let the Arabs / muslems foo you. It was the Sumerians that invented mathematics.
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/sumerian.html