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750–950 The Islamic Golden Age. Most relatable to HN was the work of al-Khwarizmi who was one of the fathers of algebra and whose name rendered as Algoritmi in
by curiousgal 10y ago
750–950 The Islamic Golden Age. Most relatable to HN was the work of al-Khwarizmi who was one of the fathers of algebra and whose name rendered as Algoritmi in Latin led to the term "algorithm".
- coldtea 10y agoWell Diophantus had already done most of this work for the foundations of Algebra 500 years before. Besides that, not much during that time compared to the industrial revolution to call it the most innovative era.
- spacehome 10y agoThat's 200 years. Consider how US society has changed in the last 200 years.
- partycoder 10y agoThe last 200 years are special. We've gone from 1 billion to 7 billion people. It's hard to compare that with a period of time when there were only ~200 million people.
- partycoder 10y agoThere is revisionism about the islamic world. When Islamic Spain fell, the Toledo School of Translators was founded. This was a huge knowledge dump. Most major scholar centres in Europe have some connection with it. Later all those translations allowed Europe to go through transforming processes such as the renaissance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_School_of_Translators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_School_of_Translators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_of_the_12th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_of_the_12th_centur...