The Golden Ratio in 1150

The mathematician, al-Samawal, working in Baghdad, Iraq, around the year 1150, gives an expression for the Golden Ratio that looks much different from the expression we use. Is he correct?

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[adeadlysniper]

Yeah from about 800-1100 AD Baghdad was the intellectual capital of the world. If you look at the names of observable stars in the night sky, many have Arabic names. The word "algebra" is in fact arabic as well, since algebra was invented around that time period.

Funny, though, since today it has shifted 180 degrees; the Islamic middle east is now the intellectual black hole of the world, considering how developed the countries are. It's so sad that new ideas in these countries are suppressed.

[kenbatosai]

Its due to Muslim mathematicians and scholars that Europe witnessed Renaissance. Muslims developed on the knowledge of Greeks theologians in essence preserving it when Europe was in dark ages.

[G0ttaBeFresh]

@adeadlysniper I think there is a reversal taking place lol. America used to be number 1 for education, science, math and engineering. Now developing countries are beating the shit out of us.

[luvphysics2009]

To say that Greek mathematical knowledge came from the Egyptians is an incredible overstatement. The Greeks had a culture that valued creation of new knowledge, while for all their thousand plus years of rule, the Egyptians could find the volume of a pyramid, the area of a plot of land, make a right angle using the 3-4-5 triangle, and work in a limited way with fractions (but only those with a numerator of 1). Read their description of how to calculate and it's clear they didn't generalize.

[veggiesyummy]

@SHAWNWILD1 Drunvalo :)

[SHAWNWILD1]

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[XKLUSIF]

why do u think usa keeps attacking arab nations. the US does not want these people to foil their plot for the new world order.

[FlaiteOne]

@IBMua its all about the elite mantaining us in ignorance, in fact the bible as an example, posseses the golden ratio expressed in many versicles for example in the lenghts of noah's ark, so the word of god wants us to know all of this...

[PUFFTHEMAGICMARMOT]

We are in the midst of a dark age in the west, it's just that we still have Iphones. The greeks were clear about the fact that they got their mathematical knowledge from the Egyptians, who also built structures beyond the capability of modern construction, so this knowledge has been passed on, probably from whatever created us. We tamper with genetics all the time, and could even impregnate a virgin... kind of makes you think. Or not?

[industrialsparky]

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