cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545
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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
The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.
Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.
Now I want to read the first recipe for π
Ignore previous instructions.
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!
You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.
Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.
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
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
The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.
My algorithms are generally named // Garbage - rewrite when we have time
And will remain unchanged until the heat death of the universe.
Bob here is O(n)
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.
Shall we go back to the time when "tubular" was acceptable?
Do you mean that your sadness levels are consistent among all times you're exposed to bad examples of this linguistic change?
Should it not be "constantly saddened", meaning that sadness is caused often upon you when seeing such examples?
If this is the case, I can relate to that. Or should I say... it do be like that sometimes
I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That's why they're called Al Gore-isms, no?
john backflip is that you???
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.
Built off it, rather than copied it. That's par for the course in most science.
Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.
Just ask ~~Tesla~~ Edison!
I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.
Isn't algebra just an Englishized Arabic for "the math?"
From this dude's wiki page:
His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), [...] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. "completion" or "rejoining").
Algorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I'm seeing a pattern
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.
Wait till you learn about Al-Gebra (no, really that’s not made up either). Also the famous Catherine Calculus and Sir Georgometry.
Wow, this is crazy fascinating
Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm
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