Built off it, rather than copied it. That’s par for the course in most science.
Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth
Moriarty@startrek.website 4 months ago
So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.
Longpork3@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.
Just ask
TeslaEdison!rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
True but then again that’s the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an “inventor”.
Contravariant@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
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.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lost because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge. So very nice of them.
HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What civilization are you talking about?
4lan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Islamophobes going to islamophobe
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 4 months ago
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.