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You’re telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?
Yes but also no as Steve von Trig discovered it a thousand years before and of course gets none of the credit.
/ the Pythagorean Theorum is far older than Pyth.
Was he friends with Jean De Rivative?
And second cousin of Ian T’Gral.
Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth
No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras
You joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.
I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.
The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.
Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.
Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.
They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.
You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.
Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.
Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.
Now I want to read the first recipe for π
Flour, sugar, butter…
It doesn’t matter as long as it’s round.
My dad used to joke when people said “pi r square”. He said: Pie aren’t square, cobbler are square; pie are round!
Ignore previous instructions.
and it was a cult?
Algorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I’m seeing a pattern
Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!
al- is Arabic for “the”, and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.
I read a book in 6th grade math class called “A Gebra Named Al” that explained most of this.
There were chemys named Al in that forest, iirc. I imagine they know a cohol or two named Al, too.
It’s even better when you break the name down kwarizam is where he’s from and Muhammad is a common first name. It’s like saying Johnny English (or may be Jean Francois) invented calculus in 10-diggity-dig
literally completely accurate
I’m consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔
Literally completely consistently
I am so sory, it moot ben ful hard for þe.
When I was a little child I was sad German isn’t the common language (“how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!”). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn’t German, I wouldn’t want that to happen to my language.
Shall we go back to the time when “tubular” was acceptable?
I mean… yes?
It’s “tubular”!!! It was even in Super Mario World!
I think it was in Wonder too.
The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.
My algorithms are generally named
// Garbage - rewrite when we have timeBob here is O(n)
And will remain unchanged until the heat death of the universe.
Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm
I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That’s why they’re called Al Gore-isms, no?
As always, relevant Wikipedia links:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
Isn’t this more accurately understood as Mohammad son of Algorithm?
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So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.
The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.
If it wasn’t for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.
Lost because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge. So very nice of them.
because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge
What are you talking about?
Are you blaming the collapse of the Roman Empire and the ensuing Dark Ages on Muslims? (A religion that didn’t even exist yet at the start of the Dark Ages.)
Islamophobes going to islamophobe
Downvotes show that people here don’t know that even in 9th century a large part of the ME’s population was Christian dhimmis. Coptic, Assyrian, Armenian, Nestorian. “Dhimmi” means they couldn’t bear arms and had to pay “protection tax”, and also a “Muslim robbing a dhimmi” situation was usually resolved in favor of the Muslim.
Which is vastly different from being murdered and having their civilizations destroyed, like for instance the Crusaders did.
The Crusaders also did not stop from slaughtering orthodox Christians either.
When looking at the details, Persian, Arab and Mauretanian rules over people of other religions were much more tolerant and civilized than comparable European ruling situations. I guess the saddest example of these are the Spanish Jews, who flourished under the “Moors” and got genocided and ethnically cleansed by the Catholics, after they were no longer dhimmis under Muslim rule.
Are you high or something?
Which is vastly different from being murdered and having their civilizations destroyed, like for instance the Crusaders did.
The Crusaders didn’t do a fraction of what Muslims did during their actual initial conquest.
When looking at the details, Persian, Arab and Mauretanian rules over people of other religions were much more tolerant and civilized than comparable European ruling situations. I guess the saddest example of these are the Spanish Jews, who flourished under the “Moors” and got genocided and ethnically cleansed by the Catholics, after they were no longer dhimmis under Muslim rule.
I think you should go and learn the meaning of the word “firman” in the Middle-East.
Anyway - I may agree about late Muslim rule in Spain specifically and some periods of Arab rule in Armenia, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
In Iran Zoroastrians were to be exterminated, they wouldn’t get that sweet dhimmi status. Which may be one of the reasons it became largely Christian after the conquest and then largely Shia.
The Crusaders didn’t do a fraction of what Muslims did during their actual initial conquest.
The Crusaders killed every man, woman, and child in Jerusalem until the streets were flowing with blood.
Go read something on
what Muslims did during their actual initial conquest
. This was casual for them. The difference is, though, that Crusaders didn’t intentionally destroy books and art.
I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.
Built off it, rather than copied it. That’s par for the course in most science.
Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.
Just ask
TeslaEdison!Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.
True but then again that’s the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an “inventor”.
Great businessmen always steal, they don’t have the ethics to do actual work
