
Maths in the Early Islamic World
In Our Time
The House of Wisdom
Alrady was the son of harn shid, famous because he appears as a character in the thousand lis, arabian nights. Alrady started getting going before then. He was born into a culture, and a bastard culture, where there was an obsession with learning. The house of wisdom may have existed in some form or another in his father's palace. It might be a physical building separate. Or it may have also been liary isolation, as this was in bagdad. And when we were talking about indian, indian influences coming in, that was, we think that we had a tincture of the chinese in it as well. So
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