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Which nation/empire was the most instrumental in the advancement of mathematics
Freaked12:
NOWAY :P
who did i abuse.
Alpha:
Reputed for getting warnings. :-P
Greeks. And Egyptians. For their architecture, their buildings haven't collapsed.
Freaked12:
PERSIANS.
Darius, Xerxes the first great Rulers of the World and with the empire stretching from Indus river to Istanbul Turkey they showed remarkable ability of governing such a vast area of land.
;D
Why Have i not mentioned China :-\
Saladin:
The concept of 0 was introduced by a Syrian mathematician.
And to my belief, the Arabs BY FAR are the most mathematical of all nations.
The arabs did so much work in geometry and algebra, that by no comparison can the Arabs be seconded other than my an emotive preference of one nation over another.
I would advise you all to look at Jim Al Khalili's documentary.
Also most other BBC documentaries point to the Arabs being the makers of the most fundamental mathematics. In the Islamic Era, the arabs advanced the most.
In fact, their instruments were used 200+ years after their downfall, some regarded as the most accurate.
Most European mathematicians worked on top of arab knowledge, just refining it, but always failed to pioneer anything.
The Indians, were advanced in astronomy but little else.
Freaked12:
No
Zero was developed By Indians.
Al Khwarizmi studied the principles of zero by asking the secretary of House of wisdom established by Caliph Al Mamun to go to India and bring this book to Baghdad which he did.
Although the working was flawed as it said zero/zero=zero, he came to a conclusion that all Mathematics began from zero. :)
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