[ExI] Eurocentric Bias in Human Achievement

[Damien Sullivan]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:31:58AM -0300, Henrique Moraes Machado (CI) wrote:

> The 'arabic' numerals are in fact Indian numerals. Their math knowledge 
> they took from the greek. 

Right, like al-gebra, al-gorithm...

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_mathematics

development of spherical trigonometry, and trigonometry as field
separate from astronomy.
modern notation for fractions
frequency analysis in cryptography
triangulation
Omar Khayyam: binomial expansion, roots of non-Euclidean geometry

-xx- Damien X-)