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Excellent point. And was Hindu or Islamic mathematics not modern? Did it only "emerge" as modern mathematics when it arrived in europe? I wish the article defi
by disown 6y ago
Excellent point. And was Hindu or Islamic mathematics not modern? Did it only "emerge" as modern mathematics when it arrived in europe?
I wish the article defined what their definition of "modern mathematics" is. It's primary focus is on the transfer of the Hindu-Arabic to Europe. What is it about the transfer of the numeral system to europe that made it "modern".
Also, wasn't "modern mathematics" officially formalized fairly recently? The early 20th century?
- dang 6y agoThey're probably referring to modernity in the historian's sense of post-Renaissance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period