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European evolution, train tales and the history of mathematics

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Golden Age of Islam

This is the golden age of of Islam though, wasn't it? As you say that we were going back into a kind of a dark age after the Romans. So what you have is this amazing flourishing of poet poetics of like Rumi and all that great Arabic poetry,. And high art and amazing intricate, intricate paintings and of course mathematics. The Europeans caught up, right? Yeah. But we robbed all their ideas. We robbed zero from them. We robbed algebra from them. Everything, right? And eventually you get Copernicus and Galileo and all that good stuff. And you move up to the present day up to the Einstein's of this world. This is why the story

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