KingMamba
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Obviously our society reached a low during the middle ages with foreign invasion,rigid caste and social stagnation and feudalism.
And we don't say arabs did nothing,just that they didn't 'invent' the things they claim as their own,they made improvements no doubt.But the centrepiece of their claim zero, is indian,and proved by inscription of the zero symbol in a calculation on indian temple well before islam.
Aztecs also had conceptual understanding of zero but no symbol.
Agreed I can accept this and in Western curriculum it is taught that the original concept was either greco or Indian but Arabs translated and expanded upon the original premises and spread it to Europe through Al-Andalus etc. I don't know how it is taught in Arab countries. Did you know Indian mathematicians used to go to Baghdad and converse with other scholars of the day?? I read that somewhere I just don't remember where exactly.