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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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Euclid's Elements

A big influence was the greeks. The two greek mathematicians that most people know are pythagoras and euclid. They have become household names here in england, in europe more generally. But they wilel alter, to a certain extent, house household names in the arab world. We've mentioned the babylonians. We must come back to them, to the indians iam at.

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