this is all spot-on and barely ever discussed--Pirenne mentions it somewhat, Jacobs talks about it in better detail
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This perspective is sort of half true. You're neglecting e.g. that math in the 1630s was roughly the same as in the 330s
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Yes, getting back to that spot was a big deal. Yes, medievals found an entirely new approach to numbers. But why was it...
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...the great mathematicians of 1450-1650 had to struggle to return to a baseline from a millennium earlier? The Dark Ages
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