Iraq-born teen cracks maths puzzle - Yahoo! News UK »
Posted By dissent 5 months, 1 week ago in NewsA 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years, Swedish media reported on Thursday.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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dissent5 months, 1 week ago
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my first thought was to wonder how much talent and genius is lost and wasted by war. this kid could just as easily have found himself dead in the "new" iraq.
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my second thought was this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_2C8Engmbk=related-
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hyperbola5 months, 1 week ago
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Shortly before the start of the Iraq war I remember reading an article about a maths paper jointly from a Spaniard and an Iraqi that an american mathematical journal turned down with the statement that Iraqi authors could not be accepted.
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alamintalib5 months, 1 week ago
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It's a shame that someone has to comment on my small statement.
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Look, the fact is that it was named algebra from the person who is consensually considered the "father of Algebra", an Persian, Al-Kwarizmi. Whether you want to call him (in modern times) Iraqi or Iranian , no one argues against that point. What, you want to make him American?
Most of his work was Islamic inspired. Algebra (al-Jibr)was formed to help calculate rules of inheritance and assist in calculating prayer times.
Avicenna or Ibn Sina is considered the "father of modern medicine". Does that hurt? We should be truthful.
If you research, most English words beginning with "a" involving mathematics, astronomy, navigation and medicine have Arabic origins. Alcohol, azimuth, alchemy, algorithm, alkali, alidade and other words like sine, cosine and ....hashish which maybe you already be familiar with. Just say no!)
The fact is the preeminent scientist in these fields were in large part "Muslim" and Islam was their main inspiration.
Just hope that Muslims can regain their dignities and return to the Quran to once again give these type of gifts back to our world. If you read up on these scientist and examine their minds and look at their periods and the instruments and knowledge available at those times, you will realize their brilliance and your place amongst the contributors to our world. What have you contributed to society?
Give credit where credit is due to ALL and your heart will feel free.
P.S. Don't knee-jerk and type a response trying to point out the negative things Muslims have done, it don't work on me. Take it ALL in and be balanced.-
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dissent5 months, 1 week ago
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leave it to beavith to bog down a moment of brilliance in bullsh*t :\
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thanks for the heads up alamintalib. interesting eye-opening stuff. my apologies also for being mistaken in saying that there is no historical reference to one individual being responsible for algebra. clearly i was mistaken. i had done a quick google before i wrote it but obviously i hadn't looked in the right places. thanks for setting the record straight.
"The Father of Algebra
Al-Khwarizmi and his colleagues the Banu Musa were scholars at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. Their tasks there involved the translation of Greek scientific manuscripts and they also studied, and wrote on, algebra, geometry and astronomy. Certainly al-Khwarizmi worked under the patronage of Al-Mamun and he dedicated two of his texts to the Caliph. These were his treatise on algebra and his treatise on astronomy. The algebra treatise Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala was the most famous and important of all of al-Khwarizmi's works. It is the title of this text that gives us the word "algebra"."
http://members.tripod.com/elegant_elaine/father_of...
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