
Maths in the Early Islamic World
In Our Time
Algebra and Geometry in the Early Ars
The greeks wherea massive influence. Their geometry was a massive influen in this, in this extraordinary mix and colmer,. How did a algebra come into it? So greek mathematics was essentially geometric a but what the greeks had that the other cultures we've been talking about didn't was the concept of proof. Algebra then, was more about solving problems of areas and volumes. It wasn't a provable thing. Why did they think they needed algebra? They needed algebra to solve practical problems.
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