"Award-winning broadcaster and physicist Jim Al-Khalili highlights the rich Arab heritage in our understanding of science today."
I think I would really like this guy, but no major new insights for me. I did finally learn what algebra means in Arabic, the first book which discussed the topic was called 'the compendious book on calculation by completion and balancing'
wikipedia has it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calculation_by_Completion_and_Balancing
some other themes of the talk. Anyone who finds a path is a pathfinder. If the path is later forgotten, the original finder is still a pathfinder, and the person who rediscovers it is also a pathfinder.
It was the birth of cities which allowed the mathematics to flourish. And the center was Baghdad.
The Arabic renaissance started by translating greek texts into arabic. Then the researchers started to add their own insights and developments.
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