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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: lorne who wrote (8790)10/27/2001 8:19:19 PM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (3) of 27666
 
Re: Arab contributions

The words algebra, algorithm, azimuth, and admiral, among others are all of Arabic origin. We use Arabic numerals, which replaced the earlier and more cumbersome Roman numerals, in our counting and calculating. Arab contributions in the fields of mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and navigation were in large part responsible for the European Renaissance. In addition, it was only through Arab libraries that much of the literature of classical Greece and Rome survived the so-called Dark Ages.
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