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There appears to be something of an edit-war in progress in this article. Could both sides please pause with the editing of the disputed passages, and discuss the situation here, civilly, stating clearly the case for both sides, with suitable sources, and we can arrive at a reasoned consensus by one means or another. Only then can we sensibly update the article. Thank you all in advance for your co-operation. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 10:08, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
Before learning that the editor responsible for some recent edits is apparently a serial Hindu nationalist sockpuppeteer, I went to the trouble of checking the sources cited for a passage of the article disputed by one of the edits, and for one of the purported facts added by another. I record my findings here for future reference.
"This method had been used by the Greeks,[11] but they did not generalize the method to cover all equations with positive roots.[10]"
"The Greeks had discovered irrational numbers, but were not happy with them … " ,
"While the ancient Indians had originally discovered irrational numbers, the Greeks were not happy with them … ".
David Wilson ( talk · cont)
"...flourished during the Islamic golden age. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad was the founder of algebra, ..."
While this predates the Islamic Golden Age, the backstory is useful. The trouble is that it reads like it's trying to place Musa in the Islamic Golden Age, or at least I was confused into to thinking so. With Khwarizmi, the nation, being largely Zoroastrian at the time of Muhammad ibn Musa, and only converting in roughly the 11th century by conquest, it should be made more clear to readers that Musa is not part of the Islamic Golden Age, but that his work sets up the concepts on which mathematicians of that age refined Algebra. Check the Wikipedia article on Khwarizmi. 69.169.184.185 ( talk) 14:52, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Yuxiang9 ( article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Yuxiang9 ( talk) 10:54, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
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There appears to be something of an edit-war in progress in this article. Could both sides please pause with the editing of the disputed passages, and discuss the situation here, civilly, stating clearly the case for both sides, with suitable sources, and we can arrive at a reasoned consensus by one means or another. Only then can we sensibly update the article. Thank you all in advance for your co-operation. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 10:08, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
Before learning that the editor responsible for some recent edits is apparently a serial Hindu nationalist sockpuppeteer, I went to the trouble of checking the sources cited for a passage of the article disputed by one of the edits, and for one of the purported facts added by another. I record my findings here for future reference.
"This method had been used by the Greeks,[11] but they did not generalize the method to cover all equations with positive roots.[10]"
"The Greeks had discovered irrational numbers, but were not happy with them … " ,
"While the ancient Indians had originally discovered irrational numbers, the Greeks were not happy with them … ".
David Wilson ( talk · cont)
"...flourished during the Islamic golden age. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad was the founder of algebra, ..."
While this predates the Islamic Golden Age, the backstory is useful. The trouble is that it reads like it's trying to place Musa in the Islamic Golden Age, or at least I was confused into to thinking so. With Khwarizmi, the nation, being largely Zoroastrian at the time of Muhammad ibn Musa, and only converting in roughly the 11th century by conquest, it should be made more clear to readers that Musa is not part of the Islamic Golden Age, but that his work sets up the concepts on which mathematicians of that age refined Algebra. Check the Wikipedia article on Khwarizmi. 69.169.184.185 ( talk) 14:52, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Yuxiang9 ( article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Yuxiang9 ( talk) 10:54, 14 December 2023 (UTC)