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[–] TheBuddha [S] 3 points 5 points 8 points (+8|-3) ago
You probably don't care but, at least until fairly recent history, a goodly amount of our mathematics has come from Arabia and much of this was done during the times of the Muslim empires. One such example is a fella named Al Gabr. You may recognize that we named a whole discipline after him, called Algebra.
It was through Arabia that we got the numerals we use today, though those began in what's now known as India. We call them Arabic numbers, but they are really Hindu-Arabic numbers. Another such advancement would be what we call 'algorithms.'
For whatever reasons, they no longer seem quite so keen on education, but the planet's center of learning used to be in Baghdad. Acedmia flourished for many generations there.
[–] Shekelstein6M 4 points 8 points 12 points (+12|-4) ago
Correction, a good amount of mathematical knowledge came from places that muslims conquered (Greece, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, India). When muslims stopped conquering they stopped advancing scientifically.
[–] TheBuddha [S] 3 points 3 points 6 points (+6|-3) ago
No, that is not correct. While it's true that they got a lot of knowledge from places they conquered, it's not true that advancements stopped. Here's a citation and there's a whole lot of of resources for you to examine at the bottom:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_in_medieval_Islam
As another poster pointed out, the golden age is long since over - but to deny that they advanced the art flies in the face of all scholarship history.
[–] KikeFree 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
So, what you're saying is that the plagiarism goes back about 1400 years.
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Oh, much further than that. What we call the Pythagorean maths probably came from Persia. Plagiarism goes back pretty much forever - and it's only really a problem when you claim it as your own. The truth is that science and mathematics are all advanced on the shoulders of giants. Everyone has based their work on the people who came before them, that's how science works. We give credit for it today, but that's not always been the case.
Today, we frown on plagiarism but we have a method for using someone else's work. It's the citations method and there's a few ways of listing them. In this case, it's particularly egregious in that it appears to be nearly a direct copy without any citations at all.
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[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This is true.