Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)
by dingoegret on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:36PM
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This is not true. They were likely ethnically Egyptian or Phoenician or Libyan but had Hellenic names. In the same way the Iranian mathematicians in the article had Arabic names. Culture and language often cross ethnic boundaries and it's up to historians to piece it all together.
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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)
by ignoramous on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:03AM
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> Iranian mathematicians
In the middle ages, there was greater Persia and two Iraqs (Iraq al-Arab to the west and Iraq al-Ajman to the east which is today's western and central Iran).
If we are being pedantic, either the polymaths in question were Persian (which they are) or Iraqi Arabs, not Iranians. In fact, Persian empire also encompassed parts of modern day Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan, until they came under the Turcko-Mongol rule.
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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)
by jacobolus on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:21AM
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dingoegret: your sibling comment here is dead.
Anyway, “Persia” (Persis) comes from the Greek version of “Pars”. Persians call their language “Farsi”, from the Arabic version, “Fars”. These all have the same origin, and date back millennia.