To: Netz
No expert here, but I seem to recall reading that algebra and zero are attributed to the Arabs, but that both actually came from peoples they had subjugated. IIRC, the concept of zero came from India. Not sure, though....
40 posted on
01/04/2011 5:20:05 AM PST by
Bigg Red
(Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
To: Bigg Red
You are right, I am giving them far too much credit. They did however give us slavery and Barbarism, can't take that away from them! How many Nobel Prize winning Muslims have there been throughout history? The Palestinian Universities in the West Bank (all built by post 1967 Israel) study advanced Chemistry in order to build higher grade bombs & rockets and then when they come under return fire, cry “uncle”...
42 posted on
01/04/2011 5:29:01 AM PST by
Netz
To: Bigg Red
"...the concept of zero came from India." ...and was perfected somewhere between Kenya, Hawaii and Indonesia.
45 posted on
01/04/2011 5:40:38 AM PST by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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