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Review: To this reviwer who claims the author made a mistake be referring to Al-Khwarizimi and Khayyam as Arab Mathematicians, the author did not make any mistake nor did any of all the authors who wrote on math history. Those two Arab Mathematicians as well as many more did live in an Arab Empire. Al Khwarizmi, his name is Muhammad bin Mosa - arabic for english moses - was born and lived in Baghdad. He was a close friend to the great Calif Al-Maamoon. Al-Maamoon used to pay the jewish translators the weight of their translation - from greek into arabic- in gold. The arab mathematicians preserved and added to the greek mathmatics. Later at the beginning of european renaissance, a latin scholar had to pretend himself a muslim to translate from arabic in todays Morroco the books of Euclid into latin because the greek original was lost. - Ref. Non-Euclidean Geometry by Roberto Bonola Dover- I think as mathematician we should transcend above such bigotry.
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