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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58645)1/10/2005 8:01:31 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 74559
 
Your cultural level is low MQ! The west stands on the giant shoulders of the Arabs. And history is not your strong point.

Anything starting with AL is of Arabic origin: Alchemy, Algebra, Algorithm, Algorism...

The numbers we use were invented by them. (Algorism)

They tried to find the Philosophal stone, (that turn eveyything into gold) and invented chemistry (Alchemy)

That branch of mathematics in which symbols, usually letters of the alphabet? (Algebra)



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58645)1/10/2005 10:05:44 AM
From: arun gera  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
>Not really. They messed with an abacus and a few stars or something. It's not as though they came up with the Shroedinger equation. >

I think you are purposely trying to avoid credit where it is due.

Abacus may be as significant for its time as Schroedinger equation was in its time. Depends on the context of the state of the knowledge and the creativity of the new field.


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