RE:@balaord by balaord on Mar 31, 2008 05:56 PM   Permalink About the Authors who isE F Robertson? Edmund Robertson - Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews wwA-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~edmund/ Replace the A in the link with w    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:RE:@balaord by JGN on Mar 31, 2008 06:05 PM   Permalink Balaord, have your forgotten to story of "My father had an elephant" ????    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:@balaord by balaord on Mar 31, 2008 05:56 PM   Permalink Brother-The mistaken identity is playing a havoc here. Nothing can be farer than this open confession from europe's highest mathematical body-The School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews Scotland ...Recent research paints a new picture of the debt that we owe to Arabic/Islamic mathematics.Certainly many of the ideas which were previously thought to have been brilliant new conceptions due to European mathematicians of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are now known to have been developed by Arabic/Islamic mathematicians around four centuries earlier. In many respects mathematics studied today is far closer in style to that of the Arabic/Islamic contribution than to that of the Greeks..... wwA-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html Replace the A in the link with w    Forward   |   Report abuse
RE:RE:@balaord by Gyan Vedi on Mar 31, 2008 06:01 PM   Permalink THE PROBLEM WITH BALAORD IS THAT HE SEES KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE LENS OF RELIGION - EVRY TIME HE SEES SOME WORK BY A MUSLIM SCIENTIST, HE WILL CLAIM THAT AS ISLAM ... NOW THERE ARE SO MANY HINDU DOCTORS, NASA SCIENTISTS, RESEARCHERS, PHD GRADS, ENGINEERS (many times more than muslims) ...BUT WE DO NOT LOOK UPON THEM AS HINDUS ... THEY BELONG TO ACADEMIA AND U PPL HATE ISRAEL, RIGHT ? 14 MILLION JEWS HAVE WON 152 NOBEL PRIZES 120 MILLION MUSLIMS HAVE JUST 6 ! PROOF OF PUDDING IS IN EATING    Forward   |   Report abuse