> [...] that the people who discovered them also, in some cases, held morally reprehensible views. If people fail to understand that a person who lived 2300 ye

> [...] that the people who discovered them also, in some cases, held morally reprehensible views. If people fail to understand that a person who lived 2300 years before our time must have held quite a range of views that we would today consider totally abhorrent, then that's not a failure in the teaching of mathematics but of history - or maybe even a failure to use common sense.