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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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What Is the Impact of Euclid's Elements on the Arabs?

Euclid is one of the earlier texts that gets translated into arabic. The whole discipline of mathematics, as it later develops, is to a certain extent, based on the translation of the elements. Greek culture was able to take all sorts ofa knowledge from different cultures and integrate id but euclid'

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