Why Nvidia & Silicon Valley Run on 9th-Century Arabic ๐คฏ๐ป
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Every time Nvidia's CEO shows off a new AI chip, your phone runs an "algorithm," or a computer writes code in ones and zeros, it is actually running on 9th-century Arabic and Persian math.
Here is how scholar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad gave the modern world "Algebra" (al-jabr), why Latin translators turned his name into "Algorithm" (Algoritmi), and how the Arabic word "แนฃifr" became the number "Zero."
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Al-Jabr inventor of math
Science have no religion or ethnicity
The language he spoke and in which he authored his scientific works was Arabic. He lived during the Abbasid era in Baghdad, working at the "House of Wisdom" (Bayt al Hikmah), and he wrote all his mathematical treatises such as *Al Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-Jabr wal Muqabala* in Arabic. Given his background, he would have been familiar with the local languages โโof the Khwarazm region (such as Old Persian or other Eastern languages โโnative to that area); however, Arabic served as the language of his scholarship and writing.
that is Turkish
Khawrazm, Merv, and some other cities were part of greater Khorasan province.
Khawrazm, Merv, and some other cities were part of greater Khorasan province.
No Arab can deny the depth of civilizational culture coming from the east.. but it needed the depth of Indian literature and civilizational culture left behind by the west in the levant and Greek literature to get to where he was.
This is history of man. Not history of Persia
TLDR its just political propaganda from centuries ago, and even to this day the arab world (Saudi Arabia) and Persia (Iran) are political enemies of each other.
The Quran is only revealed in Arabic because that was that the Prophet and their communities spoke in at that time, not because Arabic itself is some holy or elevated language, since that would make Islam not a religion for all humans on earth but only for arabs, and the reason we pray in arabic is to preserve the exact meaning in order to not lose meaning due to translation.
If you want more proof I shall list the scholars references.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Born: around 780 CE.
Died: around 850 CE.
Associated with: Khwarazm, Central Asia.
Worked primarily in Baghdad.
There is no definitive historical evidence establishing his precise ethnicity.
However, many historians associate him with the Iranian-speaking population of ancient Khwarazm.
The indigenous Khwarazmian people spoke Khwarezmian, an Eastern Indo-european language.
related to languages such as Sogdian, not Persian itself.
Therefore, calling him Persian is not necessarily accurate in the modern ethnic sense.
So ha was turkik then?
It would be historically misleading to claim that ancient Khwarazm was exclusively Persian or exclusively Turkic.
Khwarazm was a multicultural Central Asian civilization with an indigenous Iranian-speaking population and an established Turkic presence.
Al-Khwarizmi belongs to the intellectual history of Central Asia. His exact ethnic identity remains uncertain.
And one important point: the fact that a region had Turkic inhabitants does not automatically mean every person born there was ethnically Turkic, just as the existence of an Iranian-speaking population does not make everyone Persian.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Born: around 780 CE.
Died: around 850 CE.
Associated with: Khwarazm, Central Asia.
Worked primarily in Baghdad.
There is no definitive historical evidence establishing his precise ethnicity.
However, many historians associate him with the Iranian-speaking population of ancient Khwarazm.
The indigenous Khwarazmian people spoke Khwarezmian, an Eastern Indo-european language.
related to languages such as Sogdian, not Persian itself.
Therefore, calling him Persian is not necessarily accurate in the modern ethnic sense.
So ha was turkik then?
It would be historically misleading to claim that ancient Khwarazm was exclusively Persian or exclusively Turkic.
Khwarazm was a multicultural Central Asian civilization with an indigenous Iranian-speaking population and an established Turkic presence.
Al-Khwarizmi belongs to the intellectual history of Central Asia. His exact ethnic identity remains uncertain.
And one important point: the fact that a region had Turkic inhabitants does not automatically mean every person born there was ethnically Turkic, just as the existence of an Iranian-speaking population does not make everyone Persian.
it is not something you invent, it is what you observe or discover. learn the terms and learn to give credits where due. idk why ya'll try so hard to somehow credit arabs for everything in the world.
What he gave except translation and transmission to the europeans from Brahmagupta and aryabhatta? Virtually every great scientist provided something new, no way Einstein was just a documentarian!
"Father of" title does not necessarily give credit to the true pioneers, imagine nicola tesla being denied of his contribution over Edison.
I'm not denying that Alkhwarzami was a genius of his era but specifically when it is about algebra, he got credit because of transmission, europeans called it the method of alkhwarizm while he himself explicitly mentioned it as the method of indians in his texts.
He was Persian, please go and do research and stop spreading lies.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a Muslim too, not just in name like al-Khwarizmi, but a true Muslim who knew the Quran and the Hadith and followed them.
Arabic became well known in the West because they translated and studied wisdom from the ancient texts in Greek, Persian, Sanskrit etc.
But I dont have an evidence .
Anyways fuck off you cant change history and the fact we did alot Muslims i mean should be respected and recognized and appreciated we spread knowledge ๐คซ
The main premise is true but you mafe some mistakes. Also yes it is true but it is too distorted because not just time but computing pass the basic hand hlead calculator or 60s computers is totally disconnected.
Like why not talk about the first guy that thought about logic?
Well played Allah Ta'ala
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