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The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.
Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.
Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.
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.
Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.
They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.
and it was a cult?
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
So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.
I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.
I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That’s why they’re called Al Gore-isms, no?
Wait till you learn about Al-Gebra (no, really that’s not made up either). Also the famous Catherine Calculus and Sir Georgometry.
Pi-Thagoras
I heard a first earther recently say it as: pe-tha-gore-ian
Algorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I’m seeing a pattern
Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!
Blind Al helps Deadpool though???
allergy? Al Dente?
ala carte?
al- is Arabic for “the”, and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.
Isn’t algebra just an Englishized Arabic for “the math?”
Wow, this is crazy fascinating
Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm
I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm
Man i remember learning this in CS class
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