From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 08:06:57 PST
On Mar 24, 2004, at 5:50 AM, Ikem Nzeribe wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> I bow to your superior knowledge on this, but you have to look back
> further than Ancient Greece for the genesis of modern mathematics. No,
> your not a "hater"; this is a good and fair debate. Ancient Greece was
> an amazing culture, but the modern notion that modern sciences,
> including mathematics, began there is a myth that began to take shape
> in European academic circles in the 18th Century. The Greeks
> themselves, do not take credit for their mighty knowledge, but openly
> credit other for providing the bases of their powerful learning.
> Not a linguist unlike yourself, number theory such as "Pi" attributed
> to them in modern times did not originate there at all. Will begin
> digging for sources for you.
I think you need go further back to some of the Arabic roots for many
things like this.
Not sure if this then traces further back to the Indian sub continent
but it seems to.
The word Algorithm comes from Arabic roots if I recall correctly
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