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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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The Development Beyond What the Greeks Did

melvourne: The babylonians refined mathematics. They defined what we now think of as mathematics. For the greeks maths was an exercise in proof and geometry, and that was it. It was quite inward looking and quite sterile,. And would probably have fizzled out in some funny way. So whereas these were observationala is and ideas that theGreeks had, they applied rigorous mathematics to it and to philosophy.

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