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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by Aenyn on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:11AM (#20633327)
>the individuals that I named were Persian speakers, who lived in a region that is called the Greater Iran today, and wrote most of their work in Persian

And yet they are called Arab mathematicians.

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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by dfhdshfff on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:11PM (#20636016)
you named al khawarizmi, which is the only one that I'm really familiar with.

he spoke arabic. Most of his major works were in arabic, in Baghdad. and he has an arabic name.

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