The history of ‘X’, and how a failure to pronounce the Arabic word ‘shay’n’ in Spanish led to a ubiquitous symbol in mathematics.
Categories: History
The history of ‘X’, and how a failure to pronounce the Arabic word ‘shay’n’ in Spanish led to a ubiquitous symbol in mathematics.
Categories: History
Indeed, couldn’t have put it better: fun and educational as well as reminding us of Europe (and the ‘Enlightenments’) debt to Muslim civilization.
Not that the Islamophobes will pay heed…