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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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The House of Wisdom

There's no archaeological evidence of such a well. But there probably was a place where people like alcorismy and other scholars would gravitate to in the same way as the library of alexandria. And certainly the translation movement has no direct link to this house of wisdom. The most important translator, honin ibenus harke, wrote a letter explaining how he translated galen. He dies in to 16 a.D andte basically e, he accounts of his translation activity and tells us how he translated. And e mention the house of wisdom but is ment his name is mentioned only in the late tenth century source connection with this.

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