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ALT1: ... that algebraic methods were already studied in the ancient period even though an
abstract symbolic notation was not developed until the 16th and 17th centuries? Source: [2]
ALT2: ... that the word algebra originates from an Arabic term for the surgical treatment of
bonesetting? Source: [3]
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Archived from the original on 29 January 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
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Overall: Looks good! Article was nominated within 7 days of achieving Good Article status. Article is over 1500 words of prose. I found no problems with sourcing. Earwig picked up an unlikely violation of 23.1%. AGF on print sources. ALT2 seems to be the most accessible to people since ALT0 and ALT1 rely on technical knowledge in algebra. Nominator only has 18 nominations and does not need a 2nd QPQ at this time (20 nominations required).
lullabying (
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05:14, 25 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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Stop misappropriating facts and history. The Arabs did nothing more than translate and preserve texts and did not add a line to the body of already known mathematical theories. Basic roots of Algebra can be traced to Diophantus and Theon and Algebra is derived from the word Algorithms, it is so obvious. Plus the alphabet is used for the equations and not the Arabic script.
Now, after the acceptance of the finding of the two Greek mathematicians and the publication, after a crisis, in one of the strictest journals in the field, in the Japanese SCIAMVS (14, 2013 41-57), we can say that now they will probably be traced to different direction the basic roots of Algebra. Diophantus and Theon point in this direction.
2A02:85F:F80C:D100:9C0:4C78:DDF4:7AC1 (
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11:54, 8 June 2024 (UTC)reply
nothing more than translate and preserve texts – this is directly contradicted by your cited source, which (in the one relevant half-sentence) describes the flourishing of algebra in the Islamic world. –
jacobolus(t)23:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)reply
The IP seems to suggest that the Arabs did not make any significant contribution to algebra. This goes against what the sources in our article say and, as jacobolus has pointed out, is not even supported by the source they refer to.
Phlsph7 (
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07:51, 9 June 2024 (UTC)reply
For what it's worth, there are some other point of confusion here. The word algorithm comes from the name Al-Khwārizmī. The word algebra comes from Al-Khwārizmī's book Al-Jabr (al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah) which was translated into Latin as Liber Algebrae et Almucabola. What we call "algebra" today, i.e. pushing alphabetic symbols around using
mathematical notation, is formally quite different than the kind of algebra from Theon or Al-Khwārizmī. The solution steps may be conceptually the same, but modern conventions for labeling variable quantities, writing equations, etc. developed starting in the 16th century. –
jacobolus(t)17:22, 9 June 2024 (UTC)reply