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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Built off it, rather than copied it. That's par for the course in most science.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.

Just ask ~~Tesla~~ Edison!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

True but then again that's the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an "inventor".

~~Great businessmen always steal, they don't have the ethics to do actual work~~

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.