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What civilizations are in second and third place behind the West when it comes to math?

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 01:07:30 2022 No.14370715 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14370749 >>14370891 >>14371401 >>14371416 >>14371478

Why could no other civilizations get their shit together?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 01:19:40 No.14370743 Report

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India and the middle-east probably.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 01:21:26 No.14370749 Report

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>>14370715
There are no ‘other civilizations’, at least for the past thousand years the categories has been civilization (i.e. western), fallen civilizations (china arabs ottomans…), and barbarian tribes. The fallen civilizations once had good maths but they killed or otherwise overwhelmed their high iq classes just as we are doing now

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Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 01:58:00 No.14370845 Report

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Babaloynia- Modern day judism models itself after yet Babloynia is western.

Persia- 1000 years ago

Japan- Modern day

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 02:20:36 No.14370891 Report

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>>14370715
Your ignorance is monumental, just a nibble the numbers we use today are called Hindu-Arabic numbers, it's not just the name, the Muslims had a golden age of sciences hundreds of years before the west, Newton may have "unified" and formalized calculus, but he was by no way the first, it may be possible that others have achieved the same techniques he discovered centuries before him, history is not cut clean as it's usually presented, much is destroyed, forgotten and the remains manipulated and usurped to serve whatever narrative.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 02:44:58 No.14370943 Report

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Western mathematicians
>"we developed and monopolized all this and more"
Everyone else
>"we calculated pi to 8 digits and came up with a weird notation for fractions"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 02:50:19 No.14370955 Report

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Ab? ‘Al? al-?usayn bin ‘Abdull?h ibn al-?asan bin ‘Al? bin S?n? al-Balkhi al-Bukhari is still in first place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 07:45:28 No.14371401 Report

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>>14370715
The ancient Greeks as a distant second. Medieval India as a very distant third. The medieval Sinosphere (China, Japan mostly) closely behind India. Europe after the 1300s or so is in a category sui generis. Like >>14370749 this anon is technically wrong, but you might as well take it as him being right, because nothing compares to the mathematical output that has come out of Europe and European derived societies. Euler alone dwarfs the output of entire past "civilizations". And he's not the only one to accomplish this feat.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 07:46:30 No.14371402 Report

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>>14370891
>muh arabic numerals
You are a midwit par excellence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 07:49:04 No.14371406 Report

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>>14370943
/thread

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Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 07:55:16 No.14371416 Report

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>>14370715
Iran and India
Crazy how Europe, Iran, India, have the greatest historical contributions to mathematics, and all have a certain historical population in common, but even saying Aryan is almost a dirty word now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:14:52 No.14371440 Report

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>>14371416
I thought you were going to say Jews.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:23:41 No.14371450 Report

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>>14371401
>The ancient Greeks
The ancient greeks were literally where the west began.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:36:13 No.14371465 Report

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>>14371401
>>14371450
I should say that the Renaissance was a natural continuation of Greco-Roman thought. Europe pretty much picked up almost right where not only Greek mathematics left off, but philosophy, art, and so forth as well. Right down to Europe teaching from Euclid's elements, and they considered it the definitive mathematical text.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:44:38 No.14371478 Report

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>>14370715
I doubt that we even have the sufficient grasp of history, considering the age of our species. It's possible that there were highly technologically advanced civilizations existing long time before us, but we just don't know because time erased everything. There are a few things that could indicate that, like precision granite boxes in Egypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Ejf5etV5U
This level of stone work is just incredible considering we didn't even have precision equipment to measure it until 19-20th century. Making pic related with basic hand tools is on the verge of impossible and some higher form technology must have been used.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 09:39:03 No.14371517 Report

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>>14371440
Ashkenazi Jews are European. They might be different to the other Europeans, but they're still technically European.
Besides, no Jews contributed to Indian mathematics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 09:44:22 No.14371522 Report

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>>14371517
I would say they are technically of European origin, since their very presence in Europe is what sculpted them into who they are today. As to whether they are or aren't European, I don't think that has a definite answer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Apr 2022 12:15:52 No.14371758 Report

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>>14371478
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Ejf5etV5U
This is truly remarkable, thank you.

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