I'm still thinking about how this guy is the kind of Christian conservative who thinks it's even POSSIBLE to know more mathematics in AD 800 than now Like the actual massive, gigantic advances in math since then are all just passing fashionshttps://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1278997229068406789 …
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In 800 in England they didn't even have ZERO.
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lol was about to say this. All this stuff had to be developed over the next few centuries so that people can complain about having to learn it in school because they'll "never use it" (and then not understand how taxes work)
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Well, in York. If he based his thesis around the average 18 year old student in Baghdad in 800 AD, he might have been on to something.
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“thanks to [formal symbols rather than relying on natural language], school children can learn to do what in earlier days only genius could achieve.” http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html …
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Forget Algebra, they didn’t even have fractions like we do. Try using Egyptian fractions.* It’s like trying to give directions without using nouns. *As used by Sir Isaac Newton!
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They didn't even know about Neptune
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Just to be clear, that’s not the Dilbert guy, right?
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That's Scott Adams.
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This isn't really true, however in the Western world algebra hadn't really been developed much in several centuries and was pretty primitive.
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"The 'Kitab al-Jabr'? Sounds heretical to me!" (starts gathering firewood)
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