The Fascinating History of Arabic Numerals (Modern Day Numbers!)

The history of Arabic Numerals is strange and fascinating-and it was almost forgotten for 300 years! Join Hank for a new episode of SciShow where he unravels the fascinating yarn of how the world came to use so-called Arabic numerals, and replaced Roman numerals.
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[@mikeletterst9882]

We have to thank the Muslims for a lot of things. Without them our understanding of science would be 500 years behind.

[@rajeshsharmajaipur]

Thank them for copying Indian inventions??

[@rajeshsharmajaipur]

@AsaD Ali India had everything then, do you think those ancient temples were built by Indians without knowledge of science and maths?? Those temples are lot older than Khwarizmi.

[@rajeshsharmajaipur]

@AsaD Ali and one of the oldest university that India had is Nalanda in presentbday Bihar and Takshila the then India and present day Pakistan.

[@rajeshsharmajaipur]

@AsaD Ali Others are getting and not India?? What are you talking??

[@seattlebeast6165]

Dipak Basu liar

[@manamejeff8937]

To all you guys saying “who cares if he was Arab. What matters is what he did and not where he is from”. - Ironicly this does not seem to apply when the Arab is suddenly a bad guy? Edit: I see a lot of comments on the fact that the man was Persian. Have none of you even understood my point? I could have replaced “Arab” with “Persian” or “Muslim”. My point still remains, you geniuses. What are you even trying to debate here?

[@dzraider362]

they just hate arabs

[@Vr-vj9ss]

Realest comment

[@Samuelrodrigues_]

Ikr. So many mindless human live in tha society

[@manamejeff8937]

@@uncertifiedlinguist8396 Does it take anything away from my point tho?

[@manamejeff8937]

@@uncertifiedlinguist8396 Really? Damn man.... Most people seem to get it. Try reading it again, perhaps you’ll find the meaning the second time.

[@BlitzWalkthrough]

The fact that many people don‘t even know about this man and his achievements shows the extreme western bias in teaching of history. In school, we only ever learned about European mathmaticians

[@RM-ci7be]

Very true

[@Josh-iv2bw]

Odd. I learned about mathematicians from all over the world. I haven't heard of this one in particular, but chinese, indian, and the like were not uncommon.

[@gilgameshlfx7006]

Because European loves to attach their name on everything while the muslim pretty much doesn't even care. You only know them because someone told you. Not really from the guy himself. Heck the book that he wrote probably doesn't have his name on it.

[@lacepub]

You delivered my point so precisely me brother Well said

[@anand1pillai]

Do not feel so sorry, even Pythagoras theorem was known to Indians many centuries before Pythagoras but never acknowledged

[@aslidesithug3559]

It was invented between the 1st and 4th centuries by Indian mathematicians. The system was adopted in Arabic mathematics (also called Islamic mathematics) by the 9th century. Influential were the books of Al-Khwārizmī[3] (On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, c. 825) and Al-Kindi (On the Use of the Hindu Numerals, c. 830). The system later spread to medieval Europe by the High Middle Ages.

[@timokimo8206]

The number invented by Indians yet the math is not

[@AB-nx7zm]

@@timokimo8206 what do you think we invented number for

[@AB-nx7zm]

trigonometry, algebra, arithmetic and negative numbers among other areas. Perhaps most significantly, the decimal system that we still employ worldwide today was first seen in India

[@timokimo8206]

@@AB-nx7zm for counting

[@AB-nx7zm]

@@timokimo8206 Bhaskara. Aryabhata. Brahmagupta. google these name and their contribution to maths

[@yabyab]

Actually what Arab use now days as numbers are Indian numbers and what the western world uses (1, 2, 3, 4...etc) are Arabic numbers. That is odd.

[@pviveknair]

It is like the Chinese wisper game. The further the information travels, more different it becomes.

[@cesar.6171]

not any more.. at least in Syria, 5 years ago the education system was changed and we started to use the arabic numbers instead of indian numbers.. i don't know about the other arab countries but i think most of them are using the indian numbers

[@haniipc4151]

it changed in Libya back on the 90's

[@dragonouali3903]

not all of us use indian numbers

[@haniipc4151]

***** the point is algebra system and were it came from "Aryabhatta founder of the numbers" but not Algebra system also there is/was no "Arab" country but there was an Islamic Khilafat and that is were Al-Khwarizmi came from, and because it was a huge empire "Khilafa" and had much larger scientists who invented many of the science we have now, the Arabic Numerals become more famous and used all around the world

[@drdsh72]

Wow. There are a lot of haters here 😮 To your information brothers, There is someone who called ibn Al Haytham, he is the one that invented optics. And As a result we have things called camera and cinema Now. And he is an Arab. There is someone who called Abbas bin Fernas, he is the one that invented the idea of planes. There is someone who called Gaber bin Hayyan, He has been described as “the father of early chemistry”. And he is an Arab I don’t know why are you angry about Arabs scientists, or Muslims that took sciences from another culture and tried to develop and improve them. As humans we should take science from anywhere we can. The result will be for all humans. Same as the European that took sciences from Arab Universities. And improve them to higher levels And [By the way], University ( As a modern definition ) is invented by Arabs too 😉. So, keep calm. All of us are humans. And Don’t be selfish. 🙃 Edit : Thank you for the likes 🌹

[@salmanmahyuddin8384]

This is great. The technology we had today was the result of technology exchange around different cultures too

[@salmanmahyuddin8384]

@apispis1986 tincola7172 Whose mind are you talking about? I don't understand.

[@drdsh72]

dato tak seri : Islam is the reason!! I bet you didn’t read the History of Arabs. What if the reason of why there are Arab scientists is the Islam itself? Read about how Arabs were before Islam and after Islam. Then, I will reply to your opinion. Relying on What media wants you to see is not a knowledge. And with all respect, I can not discuss an opinion like that. Regards!

[@kingraiderr]

Bro they hate us cos they ANUS lol How can Hindu invent anything they dont even know what a toilet is till today .

[@georgepaul341]

Ya know most of what was “discovered” by the ppl u mentioned was actually plagiarized from Indians. Heck u can write a whole book on what was stolen from the Indians. Also did u know that at on point of time the whole Arab region was Christians? Then like what the crusaders did, their men were murdered and their wives raped. The children were raised as muslims. It is quoted in an autobiography of some European I read long back

[@dudeimstoned5141]

Everyone became popular but the original hindu numericals still became unknown. The book written by Al kharizmi itself called as hindu numerals. Same goes with Pythagores and Newton in doing translation work and assigning the credits to themself

[@zubayeerahmed3801]

The thing about knowledge is that it's a process. A long chain of discovery. That's why I believe we shouldn't credit one single demographic for knowledge but rather humanity as a whole. It doesn't matter which group the knowledge came from but rather who and how. Even prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said to his companions, "Seek knowledge! Even if you have to go to the far east of China to obtain it." We can clearly see he doesn't care which group came up with the knowledge. Because we are all the children of Adam and Eve. Allah's most precious creation because humans were made to be more knowledgable than other creations. So, let us all grow together as our father and mother Adam and Eve would've wanted us to.

[@dudeimstoned5141]

@@zubayeerahmed3801 you getting religious here. There's no proof of Adam and Eve itself it's just sayings. Science says humans evolves from other creatures.. that defies Adam Eve story

[@zubayeerahmed3801]

@@dudeimstoned5141 I am appealing to the masses.

[@bardiyamahdavi8583]

Al-Khwarizmi was an Iranian scientist who spoke Persian. The name "Khorezm" is a Persian name. Uzbeks and Turks are an immigrant people who migrated from Mongolia to the Middle East In 80% of history, half of the Middle East has been part of Iran. Afghanistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Bahrain ... all were part of Iran.

[@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye]

Did you just attempt to belittle Isaac Newton?

[@mohammadal-khatib98]

Let's not forget Jaaber Bin Hayyan, the father of Chemistry 🕴

[@nishhnishh1088]

Father of ‘arab chemistry’

[@jyh9297]

@@nishhnishh1088 no, he created chemistry.

[@ssik9460]

@@raif9203 plus who said Muslim and Indian are mutually exclusive [this post was made by totally not Pakistani gang]

[@ssik9460]

@@raif9203 as a man who lives in a Muslim country I can say Muslims rarely like giving credit to Indians especially Hindu Indians.

[@thearabianwolf3996]

@@ssik9460 You are totally wrong If Muslims doesn’t give credit to Indians they wouldn’t appoint most of them in high positions in Arabic countries Look at Gulf states most of mangers and in high positions are Indians even universities and colleges are full of Indians after allmost of old Arabic poetry were written about Indian trading and Indian swords for example is highly respected in the Old Arabic poems . You guy have wrong view about Arabs I guess

[@1scatterbrainednerd]

It's insane that I never learned about this guy in any of my math or history classes. Seriously, American education system?

[@Vladjenka]

I am european and our history and math classes don't cover him either. His name could also come up in geography and philosophy classes... funny. Perhaps the people who decide what's important, decided to keep this from students all over the world :)

[@aladdin4444]

@@Vladjenka as arabs we know about him and all arab scientists from the golden era of the Islamic civilization So sad that the world don't know about them

[@paintswithlead7517]

... how about Algebra?

[@Lspixel]

@@paintswithlead7517 the same inventor of algorithms , he invented algebra : Muhammad al-Khwarizmi the base of science today was invented by muslims scientists , math , anatomy , optics between 700 and 800AD

[@fouadhoblos3611]

Imagine that a certain Arab (a real Arab) named Ibn Al Haitham, better known for his works on optics, had mathematical methods preceding Newton integrals to calculate surface areas!

[@chickenman2048]

I feel that as a Muslim and a man of science,arts and philosophy,we can all learn that no matter what religion you are,knowledge is strength and knowledge is what brings one out of ignorance and certain discoveries have aided mankind even if youre Muslim or Christian or Hindu.Altogether we are humans.If we put down the weapons and decide to think together,just imagine the Golden Age of Humans.Knowledge is strength and no one can deny it.A sword can pierce but knowledge lasts forever,even if it is a lost for a time ,it will be rediscovered so I would like thank our ancestors from Asians to the Europeans for developing knowledge of one another when one of us was ignorant.This are my thoughts.

[@halaambe]

as a muslim do you believe in evolution?

[@maighaa]

I'm a Muslim and I believe in evolution. Read Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth by Mirza Tahir Ahmad, also available free online: www.alislam.org/library/books/revelation/ It discusses evolution in light of Quranic verses. Not just biological evolution, but theories like the Big Bang about the very creation of this universe.

[@chickenman2048]

Haleem AH I believe in creationism and the evolution of man from giants.

[@chickenman2048]

maighaa I believe in evolution in the sense that we evolved from giants

[@halaambe]

Ras Ya why do you not believe in evolution of species? and where is the evidence of giant humans living on earth?

[@lantinian]

Wow. I just corrected a fundamental fact in my knowledge of the world and expanded it. Thank you.

[@bibinssb1]

Muhammad al-Fasari translated brahmagupta's brahma-sphuta bhashyam into Arabic. Another, Al-Khwarizmi, had some of Brahmagupta's findings al-Jamwal-Tafaric. B Hisal-al-Hind (al-Jam wal-tafriq bi hisal-al-Hind ) was published as a book called Addition and Subtraction in Indian Arithmetic. These Arabic books were translated into Europe centuries later and translated into Latin as Algorithmi de numero indorum, which spread through these books by Brahma Gupta and his contemporary great mathematicians throughout the world. But until recently, the Arabs and Europeans had propagated them as their own inventions.

[@ziyadjadid3498]

Luckily for us in Saudi, us young kids were and still proud 😊

[@nyxawesome9409]

@@bibinssb1 Yes and the only reason al-plagiarismi spread it because it started getting used along the silk route, the highway of trade, information and transfer of knowledge in ancient times. But credit where it's due, al-plagiarismi compiled all the knowledge he got from Hindu numerals and algebra and had it spread...

[@baraarjoob3859]

I've been scrolling through the comments and I've already read a lot of them but I'm upset because I saw most of them are conflicts between Arabs and Persians. My friends, you should know something. There is no difference between an Arab or a non-Arab except with piety. We are all Muslims. We are one hand. We help each other. We stand for each other and face difficulties. your skin, but unfortunately there are not many people who understand the meaning of this and the enemies (colonialism) have succeeded in separating us and making us fight each other So as an Arab our education didn’t teach me this numbers were Islamic

[@timokimo8206]

​@@nyxawesome9409 Racist

[@devamjani8041]

The entire number system we use today is the Hindu numerical system . Al khwarizm wrote several books on Hindu maths and Hindu knowledge and through those books, the Europeans were introduced to Hindu numerical system and from that point on, it became the official number system used through out the world forever.

[@gcjffjj797]

Nooo bro tf???? He was actually Uzbek

[@ABhattacharya]

@@gcjffjj797 He was Uzbeck but he got the numerical system from India and he has not plagiarized, it is properly acknowledged.

[@gcjffjj797]

@@ABhattacharya where's the proof ?

[@ABhattacharya]

The greatest proof however is in Al khwarizm's own writings. The numerals are called Hindsa numerals by Arabs.

[@prachisharma444]

@@gcjffjj797 Read about his book called "Zij Al- Sindhind"

[@135meredith]

This is just so FASCINATING. If we could go back in time and bring that man to today (and let him understand modern english), how amazed do you think he would be that we're still using his numbers and his methods? He has probably made the biggest, most lasting impact on the human race in the history of mankind. Seriously. He should at least be mentioned when kids first start learning algebra. What an incredible man.

[@much_tunsia]

he is one of the great muslims who all had their own impact on the world , as a muslim who cares about islamic history he is great but not the only great person

[@drivex6761]

Flawless

[@baraarjoob3859]

I've been scrolling through the comments and I've already read a lot of them but I'm upset because I saw most of them are conflicts between Arabs and Persians. My friends, you should know something. There is no difference between an Arab or a non-Arab except with piety. We are all Muslims. We are one hand. We help each other. We stand for each other and face difficulties. your skin, but unfortunately there are not many people who understand the meaning of this and the enemies (colonialism) have succeeded in separating us and making us fight each other

[@much_tunsia]

@@baraarjoob3859 Actually diffrence between arab and ppersians first ones are cool they start with the A letter and second one with the P letter unluckly , btw idk whats special about the A letter

[@baraarjoob3859]

@Ahlam Elam🇹🇳. Haha big difference but I don’t think I understood.

[@awaisakram6173]

for me al - khawarzmi is the most underrated scientist in human history .. without him we won't have maths nowadays .. one of the greatest inventors for me ..

[@mygmail5470]

Just like his prophet what he did was cut, copy and paste.

[@Quadram461]

@@mygmail5470What did he copy and pasted lol

[@slimeplayz116]

⁠@@mygmail5470Arabic numerals: 1 2 3 Indians numerals: ١ ٢ ٣ Eastern Arabs use the Indians numerals While the western Arabs use the Arabic numerals Now why did the eastern Arabs ditch the numerals they created we kinda don’t know Now tell me what does the world use This ١٢٣ Or this 123 Now how the Arabic numerals were created to resemble angels 1 has one angel 2 has angels 3 has 3 angels 0 has zero angels Now some people are telling the government we should stop using the Indian numerals and start using the Arabic numerals we created And I actually never use these ١٢٣ And actually use these 123 in school and every time I write a number Cuz these numbers :0123 are Arabic If the world used these numerals : ٠١٢٣ Then I would have said that they should be changed and called into Indians numerals but the world doesn’t use these So you can stop crying now 🙃

[@followerakhirat]

​@@mygmail5470wow, seems like someone never read and learn the Islamic scripture before

[@adamal-faris9557]

​@@mygmail5470 cry over there

[@okthen.2235]

He wrote a book called " mathematics of Hind/ India" he himself never took credits and rightfully gave it to Indians ! You should give it too!!

[@okthen.2235]

@Roid Astria lel good joke

[@nyetmatchbox9852]

@Roid Astria . Zero was already in use in India(as the Greeks called it) in the early CE centuries. There are inscriptions on temples where zero was represented as a hollow semi-sphere.

[@rajivunome]

Zero was already created in India

[@nyetmatchbox9852]

@Roid Astria Yupp

[@rajivunome]

@Roid Astria Yes read Arybhatta or simply google who invented 0

[@HatRSol]

While Al-Khwarizmi wasn't an Arab by race, he lived all his life amongst Arabs and wrote all his books in Arabic. The Muslims/Arabs ruled more than half the earth at that time.

[@HatRSol]

​@чукча казах раб Джунгарович Wrong, You cannot claim he was a Farsi Persian! Although he was born in Persia!! As a matter of fact, one cannot claim anything with certainty about his life with certainty, except that his mother tongue was Arabic and that all his work was produced in the Arabic in Abbasi 'House of Wisdom' in Baghdad between 813 and 833.

[@CompCode-Central]

What do u smoke? His mother tongue was Persian. Barber Arabs took over the Mother Persia but not over their nationality, u good?

[@CompCode-Central]

00:42 I suggest u listen carefully 😂🖕

[@HatRSol]

@@CompCode-Central Sorry to disappoint you, I don't smoke! and I don't usually dignify those who smoke whatever you smoke with a response to their hallucinations, however on this occasion I'd like to correct your spelling of 'Barber' (hair dresser lol) to 'Berber' (Maghrib dwellers). Try to forget the sewer in which you were raised and be polite in the future, maybe you'll gain some attention then. End of.

[@CompCode-Central]

@@HatRSol u ain't got nothing to say just to correct my spelling? 😂 that's right, u ain't got nothing to say cuz u know I'm right. Literally rest of the world and wikipedia is saying he is Persian. 00:42 listen again dummy

[@MeaganMadSkyentist]

I had no idea that are numerals were actually ancient Hindu, or anything about Al Kharizmi Thank you for this lesson!

[@anand1pillai]

It is not exactly Hindu but India to be perfect

[@muzzabouzza6144]

Nothing to do with hindou ,very delusional to say so the whole world knows that

[@anixes]

@@anand1pillai Hindu and India means same thing. The word India comes from word Hindu.

[@rajatk5895]

@@anixes the word India comes from the word Indus and the word Hindu comes from the word Sindhu which again means the Indus river. Hindu was the collective name given by middle Easterners to the people of India(specifically those living in the sapt sindhu/north India) in the medieval period. Therefore, Hindu and India have different meanings.

[@Sepi_goorgir]

The name is not Al kharazmi its khawrazmi and he was persian not arab

[@dasalekhya]

SANSKRIT Numerals - shunya (0); eka (1); dvee (2); tree (3); chatur (4); pancha (5); shash (6); sapta (7); ashtha (8); nava (9) ---- First appears in Hinduism's main Text RIGVEDA (around 2000 BCE - i.e 3000 years BEFORE Khwarezimi)

[@TriumphantToufik]

Did you actually watch the video or are criticizing it without watching it?

[@oloha2]

true, but Khwarezmi made them international

[@baraarjoob3859]

I've been scrolling through the comments and I've already read a lot of them but I'm upset because I saw most of them are conflicts between Arabs and Persians. My friends, you should know something. There is no difference between an Arab or a non-Arab except with piety. We are all Muslims. We are one hand. We help each other. We stand for each other and face difficulties. your skin, but unfortunately there are not many people who understand the meaning of this and the enemies (colonialism) have succeeded in separating us and making us fight each other So as an Arab our education didn’t teach me this numbers were Islamic

[@dmeditz8100]

@@oloha2 india never needed to make them global because india was rich and largest civilization in terms of population and 3largest in area.

[@Vayu_Aksh]

​@@oloha2yes thanking him he was a great man in every aspect,knowledge must be respected 🙏🙏🙏

[@HiddenAgendas]

Fun fact. Americans were polled asking if Arabic numerals should be taught in schools. Over 50% of Americans said hell no.

[@Summitic]

Lol 😂😂

[@ericocccams5865]

@@Summitic republicans, conservatives most likely

[@moongoddess1978]

Were these the same people who were asked if they support women’s suffrage?

[@pippo767]

Hindu Arabic Numerals are actually Indian Numerals because Arabic script is from Right to left but Brahmi script is from Left to right from which Hindu Arabic numerals originated.

[@HiddenAgendas]

@@pippo767What we use now is the Arabic Version. STFU with your nonsense.

[@chilarai1]

Al Khwarizhmi acknowledged in his works that they were based on the "kitab-al Hind", the book of Hindu numerals and mathematics. Most Arabic mathematicians freely acknowledged that their work was based on Hindu texts. The so-called "Arabic numerals" of 1, 2, 3, 4... are NOT Arabic but Hindu. At best, the Arabs were somewhat honest transmitters of knowledge from India to the West. Similar is the case with many other "arabic inventions", including Damascus steel which was nothing but wootz steel from India.

[@RAJ_K_]

Indians claim everything was made by them 🤣 in every single scientific video

[@user-uj2tk2tv3z]

​@@RAJ_K_it wasn't claimed by indians but al khwarim himself you pedophile worshippers

[@hassenesh4354]

Who cares if he was Arab or Persian.... The important thing is that he is a, Legend and we should remember him like we do to Einstein and Newton :)

[@yosslabidy9636]

We care ❤️ because we are Arabic

[@krsn77540]

He was afghan

[@yosslabidy9636]

@@krsn77540 hahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@livetochange974]

So what If he was Arabic

[@yosslabidy9636]

@Fahad Wasi but he's arabic 😊😊

[@mojohns44]

Interestingly, when I went to school in various states (as a military BRAT) back in the 60's, we were taught that our number system was called the"HINDU-Arabic" number system.

[@saikrishnak8631]

yes both have developed it upto some extent

[@iXpress]

Hindus developed the Number System, Arabs brought it to Europe

[@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv]

@@saikrishnak8631 no hindus developed and arabs passed.

[@waqarismail1838]

According to Google,Google is not a Google without using alorithm which invented Al khwarazimi

[@AbhijitZimare1]

Wrong. The term is Arabic the method is older than Arabs existed. Sumerians and Indians used it before Arabs. We just have different words for it. It was popularised by Arabs. They didn't invent it.

[@sreepo]

@Yousef Ghaneemah that means ur ancestor were hindus

[@actualfactual8737]

@@sreepo wouldnt trust either group either way....lol

[@sreepo]

@Yousef Ghaneemah how is it possible sir, hindus civilization is much older than arabian. If my knowlege is correct

[@jasonbrown467]

this is like saying a black dude in the USA invented traffic lights, which is a common thing they like to throw around during black history month. he only got a patent for the yellow part of the 3 lights while it was already in use by other people before he "invented" it. lol

[@PBlague]

I get all tingly whenever some video somewhere talks about Persian scientists or the things that they've done, it makes me feel more important than I actually am.

[@contactpjoshi123]

🤣🤣🤣 Same with me, Indian here. With all the inventions that Westeners have done ever since they adopted some of the fundamental Indian and (fundamental?😜) persian inventions, that it is very difficult to brag with them. But you Iranians are at a level playing field. So lets start..... We Indians invented much more than you Iranians 😎....

[@anand1pillai]

Persian had a great and unique culture until the Arab conquest

[@abr.caldas]

In Brazil we call them hindu-arabic numbers not just arabic.

[@arunkd5218]

Arabs taken from indian vedic mathematics thats why it is called hindu-arabic Numeral

[@9781834634]

Hindu numerals are way too old, al Khwarizmi wasn't even born at that time, even the islam religion was yet to begin

[@arunkd5218]

Numeral system is made by indians and later adopted by arabs

[@9781834634]

Indians were using 1-9 numbers even before the arabs

[@HimanshuRohela]

and look at the tragedy, they call it as Arabic number system in India.

[@boipinoi604]

We need more muslims like this one.. instead of the ones going around causing destruction.

[@rizwanali701]

you are the one causing destruction

[@BoBBaB0oN]

there is a lot of muslim liket his one. but all media shows is the one who cause destruction.

[@pantherax1]

it is kinda bad prograganda, i cite here a documental about metal in a gobal prespective, and you will find muslims YES and they are not like the ones with ak47 you see in the tv, they are like us, looking, working his way in this world full of hate and hiden agendas

[@pantherax1]

see? but we need to make clear minor things like the way we see the world and they need to give us respect to us the foreigns on their lands, and we need to respect them too and understand their traditions

[@pantherax1]

anyone who embraces peace as their main concept of life, is welcomed on my house

[@mehuldineshbhaisangani9707]

On the very first page of his every book, he has written that "I AM JUST SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE OF HINDU CIVILIZATION".

[@muzzabouzza6144]

Nothing to do with hindou u are very deluded

[@yusufakhtar2209]

I think you should say indian civilization. Yeah but its okay if you say hindu civilization.

[@yakhyobekmamadaliev5930]

Why are many of them from our country? For example al kharazimy, Abu Ali ibn sina=medicine, imam al Bukhari, al beruny who told the shape of earth truly ........ and so on I am proud of being generation of them. Love you from Uzbekistan.

[@nw3877]

They didn't told ! , instead They got the knowledge from already 2nd GDP(in that era) country after China( in that era) , i.e. India in ancient and medieval times. Burst ur cute cocoon and know middle easterns travelled a lot to east and India and brought u back commodities, science and maths. :D

[@minayazdanbin2184]

You do realize they were Iranian/ Persian? Those four men you have just mentioned in your comment? Are you still proud of being their generation, or you want to just claim they were Turkic? If the former is case, fine. If the latter is the case, you’re just deluding yourself.

[@minayazdanbin2184]

Bruce Banner, What a childish comment if you’re really being serious.

[@umaryuldashov9209]

@@minayazdanbin2184 Well, there's is no clear evidence that these scholars were Persians or Arabs, etc.

[@phoenixk4328]

Its weird that they are all share the same religion and they studied in arab countries!!

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Keep an open mind, study all the cultures, use what works.

[@Banana-senpai]

i didn't expect the spanish inquisition

[@lohancindy5442]

No one ever does

[@ericferguson9989]

Noooo! Not the comfy chair!

[@mein3324]

Everyone should give credit to Indians for giving us the number system that we use today. Thank you India. You are great. 🙂

[@mostafa.alshami]

Both numbers are Arabic in Quran numbers write like this ١٢٣... Not like this 123. What we take from Indians is this (,)

[@mein3324]

@@mostafa.alshami I am not sure what you are talking about.

[@mostafa.alshami]

@@mein3324 never mind

[@mashprivel3996]

Number system was first invented in babylon not india

[@mein3324]

@@mashprivel3996 I am talking about number system that is used today. It is called Hindu - Arabic numerals. Invented by Indians and introduced to the west by Arabs. Babylonian, chinese, roman all have number system but now we don't use them for calculation.

[@Ngamotu83]

There's a simple reason it's called the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. They had their origins in Indian 2,300 years ago, but were eventually imported into the Arab caliphates some time in the 9th century. Through the work of mathematicians in the caliphates, whether Persian, Arab, or other, they eventually came to be known to the Europeans. Eventually, they were referred to as Arab numerals, because that's where the Europeans got them from. So if you don't like Hindu reference in the name, you can chalk that up to the naive Europeans not knowing the numerals originated in India. Whereas if you don't like the Arab reference, that is on account of where the Europeans got the numerals from. Either way, it is not inaccurate to call the numerals Hindu-Arabic, and is a good compromise for acknowledging the history of the numerals.

[@ashiinsane90]

Stop saying everything was invented by Indians, India wasn't the only culture that had mathematics, In the Islamic world at that time it was vast empire included countries like Egypt, Persia, Babylon and many others.. Egypt alone for example is the one invented many things in mathematics more than any other, Pi aka the golden ratio is found all over temples and the pyramids of Egypt Meaning they knew Pi well before every one else they also invented the metric and 0 system and the science of the pyramids can prove that, Pyramids still puzzle scientist today everything is precise to the centimeter. Baghdad was the center of knowledge at that time, they were able to gather all that knowledge from rich cultures and attributed to science and math to what we know today.

[@baraarjoob3859]

I've been scrolling through the comments and I've already read a lot of them but I'm upset because I saw most of them are conflicts between Arabs and Persians. My friends, you should know something. There is no difference between an Arab or a non-Arab except with piety. We are all Muslims. We are one hand. We help each other. We stand for each other and face difficulties. your skin, but unfortunately there are not many people who understand the meaning of this and the enemies (colonialism) have succeeded in separating us and making us fight each other So as an Arab our education didn’t teach me this numbers were Islamic

[@IndoAryan]

@@ashiinsane90 Muslim received mathematics education in India.

[@pratikkumar8409]

@@ashiinsane90 wtf you talking about they had empires that don't change fact that number were originated in India and Arabs spread to world how this is so hard to understand

[@TheComputec]

If this was a Nat Geo or discovery documentary, it would have taken over an hour to lay that information out, with a nice soundtrack, cgi and experts from american universities gushing in the praise for the profound discoveries. Somehow I prefer this method of fast pacd delivery, although i'll probably have to watch it seven or eight times as I've already forgotten the geezers name :-)

[@m.i.qurashi2456]

TheComputec ig u r a britisher

[@VanaraVegeta]

These great Mathematicians didn't hide the fact that they were simply translating the work of _Hindus_ but what could be the motive of European to suppress this?

[@VanaraVegeta]

Hindu numerals. I never knew that translators become more famous than the original writer

[@TheComputec]

@@VanaraVegeta I don't know? What makes you think they are suppressing it?

[@nurulsolehah6801]

History channel did one about muslim scholars including al-khawarizmi (if I'm not mistaken). But it was in the early 2000s.

[@DrAdnan]

People focus so much on arguing the details of the past when we should focus on improving the present so we can have a better future.

[@minecraftstation6422]

The truth about this society nowadays really hurts 😞

[@sal_strazzullo]

Best comment, with least likes, as always

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

You must know and learn from the past or you cannot improve. This is why we study history and keep records of past research. To ignore the past is simply ignorance at its finest.

[@amiralkook1]

This is historical. Nobody should take others heritage. Without passed discoveries mostly Persian mathématiciens do you think you had a smartphone in your pocket?

[@amiralkook1]

TeamHansen19 Iranians were forced to become Muslims a sms change their name (like Mohamad Ali did by his own from Cassius Clay. )under killings, rapes , or heavy taxes. ( you can read this in history book called TARIKH TABARI) So it’s not because you have English name that you are American or British. Mexicans are not Spanish but they have Spanish name. When you are forced to covert to Islam you must have a Muslim name. A French friend of mine just married Muslim woman so converted to Islam and changed his name from Raphael to Rafigh. Anyway Iran have never been colonized, had never changed his language. All countries invaded by Arabes have been forced to become Muslims or speak Arabic.All people from syria , Lebanon, to North Africa are not Arabs they are Berbers and had their culture only Spain resisted against the religion and language and Iran for language and kept also its Zoroastrian traditions. Kharazm was a région of Iran at that time. Kharazmi as his name is showing is from Kharazm. I hope it’s clear now.

[@dharmeshsince1985]

The title of the book he wrote translated to On Calculation With Hindu Numerals. He was instrumental in introducing Hindu numerals to west and middle east. Hindus as Indians were known back then obviously created those numbers.

[@palestiniandialect_arabicstuff]

I always tell my Arabic learning Students and they always get shocked, thank you for this video , you explained it clearly💚

[@TRIOPSable]

Al Khawarizmi, I love you, but was the algebra really necessary

[@amaan6845]

Borbor Ogiesoba yes yes it was if it didn't exist I am sure flight or space travel wouldn't be possible and the society will still be trying to develop

[@siegfriedia9986]

without algebra, we wouldn't have computers, smartphones, Internet ect. thanks to God Who gave us this muslim knowledge

[@najmaht.a.1314]

Borbor Ogiesoba if we didn't have algebra u wouldn't be on the internet watching youtube videos and commenting this :'D

[@ejajejsj5254]

Yessssss

[@puncheex2]

You bet your cognomen.

[@IvanAmentisBratoev]

I had that teacher at the university who kept saying every first lecture in the semester: "if any of you can say of the names of the creator of the algorithm I will free you from my classes for the rest of the day" :D

[@meghnaaggarwal22]

Ivan Bratoev haha I wonder if anybody even tried..

[@IvanAmentisBratoev]

Meghna Aggarwal He said, that once some dude said them. And he had a shitload of classes and that was the first class. They spent the whole morning chilling around because the dude really said them :D

[@meghnaaggarwal22]

Wow! Maybe I should learn the names as well, just in case ;P

[@VanaraVegeta]

These great Mathematicians didn't hide the fact that they were simply translating the work of _Hindus_ I never knew that translators become more famous than the original writer

[@hossainrabby4058]

@@VanaraVegeta Greek and Hindu numerals were completed by Al Khwarizmi and made it familiar to the world,,,,you should thank him...

[@earthn1447]

This is Good to know! Fascinating, thank you.

[@roleplayinglife7548]

Al-Khwarizmi wrote "Kitab al hisab al Hindi"( "book of Hindu numericals"). This was translated into Latin by the name "Algorithmi de Numero Indorum" ("Al-Khwarizmi's Indian numericals"). Khwarizmi also wrote "kitab al-jam' wa'l-tafriq al-ḥisāb al-hindī ('Addition and subtraction in Indian arithmetic'). This was another work inspired from Indian mathematics which was largely in use until next 3 centuries. Khwarizmi's "Zij al-Sindhind" (Astronomical tables of Siddhanta) is another work consisting of approximately 37 chapters on astronomical calculations based on Indian astronomical methods. The word 'Sindhind' is literally means Hindus living along the Sindhu river Al Khwarizmi himself called it ilm ul Hind ("knowledge of Hindus"). But we call it "Algorithm" . But western historians deliberately denied Hindus the credit & now Islamists are taking credit

[@horrorhabit8421]

It's true. The numerals zero through nine were devised in India around the time of Buddha, about 500 bc.

[@13mriski99]

Yeah just claim anything you want, but the credit will always goes to him and his religion, of course, but why? Because he worked hard for it just to made this knowledge for human. You should be greceful that he include the name of what he's developing into a better and useful version. If you made an electricity, and builds an electricity car, does that mean that the car is yours? Just because you made the first component? utilize your logic please. Al-Khwirizmi learn a lot, developing something that are already exist into a very different and better version of it, just to made a greatness invention for human life. And you Indians claiming that it were yours? Somehow I found a comment from an indian guy, that the arabs invade Indians and stole their knowledge, like what in the fairy tales is this? Middle eastern peoples will always travel around the world to spread Islamic religion and life, and also in use for searching better knowledge. Why you Indians can't take some peace and accept islam? You guys really hate them huh? Doesn't your religion tells you to be a peace and mind person? Your gods tell you this didn't? I'm not surprised if you were ignorant about this, since you're Indians, they will never accept any good aspect from islam, not even religion, not even their invention, not even their contribute to the world, and not even their kindness.

[@SportyMabamba]

Surely enough, the Hindu Nationalists arrive.

[@NothingBurger-rw3il]

Yeah, it's pretty weird. Al-Khwarizmi's a pretty upstanding guy for giving credit where it's due.

[@alshrahi]

😂😂

[@wulantsabita9843]

Math Today powered by Al Khwarizmi™

[@kookiedough2441]

الخوارزمي

[@ginansl361]

Hahah nice

[@9781834634]

Using hindu numerals

[@lulm8767]

lan abit using indian knowledge

[@ceasefire2825]

Lul M8 lemme stop you right there.arabs developed more into modren maths than Hindus.also surgical equipment,the pin hole camera and many others were made by Arabs

[@adeni4359]

Just watch and learn, stop hating each other!!!!

[@jawadibrahim2367]

yes

[@shinrarango]

true!

[@Brainstorm4300]

Who's hating who? O_o

[@itratabbas7669]

+Brainstorm4300 people hating Muslims

[@vinsin328]

how?

[@Thrill-2]

More difficult than discovering science, applying it on the ground and benefiting from it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this

[@mrad6707]

There are a lot of modern Arab Inventors such as Algerian Belkacem Habba who invented SD Card, Flash Disk, Playstation 4,5, but Media don't talk about them because they are dark brown with no colored eyes.

[@saudiman90]

Al-Khawarzmi was human . a good one too . that's enough .

[@dustyluck]

+Job King and you happy about it ?+ ignorant dumb asd

[@saudiman90]

***** First of all, I'm proud of being a Muslim more than being an Arab, because I choosed to be a Muslim. I didn't choose my race. I know that RACE might be a big deal to you if you were a westerner or eastern but not for me. I am sure that Al-Khawarzmi in all his life never had this kind of nationalist mentality that you and many people around the world have or he wouldn't have the time to make his Algebra while he has many racist comments to reply to ;-) have a nice day !

[@saudiman90]

+Job King ha-ha get a life!

[@saudiman90]

+Job King okay you are smart and we are stupid. Do you feel superior now ,smartass? I bet your name is Reza Mosawi not Job King .. lol Anyway just make us a new invention while your typing on the net looking for Saudi & Turki scientists. Please move your Clock time to 2015, don't live in your imaginary Persian empire. It was once great, but not anymore.

[@therealafridi]

How the fuck does a video like this turn the comments into an insult hurling competition?

[@FarhanIshrakAhmedUchchash]

One of the greatest scientists ever to have walked the face of the earth, a part of a chapter of Islamic Golden Era

[@JackvanHouwelingen]

+Farhan Ishrak Ahmed And now wake upp and look what you'r society has become .

[@FarhanIshrakAhmedUchchash]

+Jack van Houwelingen it's because the Muslim society has been divided into sects and there's no unity. We have deviated from following our holy scripture and Busy arguing on petty matters.

[@Balinux]

+Farhan Ishrak Ahmed That's backwards. Following your holy scripture has driven you to pettyness and to forget the rest of your culture.

[@djm7323]

+Balinux culture is the reason Muslims are this way, not Islam or the Quran

[@Balinux]

Ahmed Nashif Don't underestimate religion's potential for irrationality. Europe used to be in the dark ages too.

[@Fasleno]

Kharazmi was a Persian scientist like other thousands in Persia in that era, like Farabi, Ave sina, Zakaria Razi, khaje Nasir eddin, abu Raihan birouni, saadi, Hafez, Rumi, khayam ... Unfortunately nowadays no one knows about them and what they did for entire humanity.

[@amiralkook1]

Yousef Ghaneemah Iranians were forced to become Muslims a sms change their name (like Mohamad Ali did by his own from Cassius Clay. )under killings, rapes , or heavy taxes. ( you can read this in history book called TARIKH TABARI) So it’s not because you have English name that you are American or British. Mexicans are not Spanish but they have Spanish name. When you are forced to covert to Islam you must have a Muslim name. A French friend of mine just married Muslim woman so converted to Islam and changed his name from Raphael to Rafigh. Anyway Iran have never been colonized, had never changed his language. All countries invaded by Arabes have been forced to become Muslims or speak Arabic.All people from syria , Lebanon, to North Africa are not Arabs they are Berbers and had their culture only Spain resisted against the religion and language and Iran for language and kept also its Zoroastrian traditions. Kharazm was a région of Iran at that time. Kharazmi as his name is showing is from Kharazm. I hope it’s clear now.

[@amiralkook1]

Yousef Ghaneemah haha you have your own history books made by yourself. If you don’t know go and study or keep it t quite. if you say something bring evidence books sources.

[@pyruvicac.id_]

I`m just fascinated about the amount of people who claim Al-Khwarizmi was either Arab or Turk, like literally the name sounds clearly Farsi not Turkic nor Arab...Khwarizmi lol how is this even a debate? A lot of Persians used to live in that region now called Uzbekistan. My ancestors also came from there and then travelled via Iran to Turkey and these kind of pointless discussions make me seriously wonder if I`m not actually of Persian descent rather than Turkic because damn people are such nationalists it hurts.

[@Qthetar]

p y r u v i c a c . i d well new study shows that 56% of Iran today are of Arab descent, J1.

[@NWOterminated]

@@Qthetar What new study? You mean your pan arab sources? Haplogroups dont mean anything when it comes to ancestry.

[@VanaraVegeta]

These great Mathematicians didn't hide the fact that they were simply translating the work of _Hindus_ I never knew that translators become more famous than the original writer

[@user-uj2tk2tv3z]

We need to claim our numberals fearsily

[@mohammadnaif9894]

Lol only some peoples like u r claiming that it was translated from India

[@user-uj2tk2tv3z]

@@mohammadnaif9894 whole world says this not just some people

[@mohammadnaif9894]

@@user-uj2tk2tv3z lol who said except some peoples like u claim that he copied. If u have guts then search who is the father of algebra. By the way first records of zero were founded in Mesopotamia so it means aryabhatta copied it from Mesopotamians

[@user-uj2tk2tv3z]

@@mohammadnaif9894 lol fool Zero was invented by brahmagupta not Mesopotamia First learn what zero is And yeah al khwarim wrote a book and dedicated his work to indians Go and search about the book he wrote

[@dixgun]

Nice to learn about al-Khwarizmi . Have known since childhood or at least since my early teens that Arabic numerals were originally from India, were therefore Hindu in origin, but I never bothered investigating how that came to be . Thanks for this .

[@bibinssb1]

Muhammad al-Fasari translated brahmagupta's brahma-sphuta bhashyam into Arabic. Another, Al-Khwarizmi, had some of Brahmagupta's findings al-Jamwal-Tafaric. B Hisal-al-Hind (al-Jam wal-tafriq bi hisal-al-Hind ) was published as a book called Addition and Subtraction in Indian Arithmetic. These Arabic books were translated into Europe centuries later and translated into Latin as Algorithmi de numero indorum, which spread through these books by Brahma Gupta and his contemporary great mathematicians throughout the world. But until recently, the Arabs and Europeans had propagated them as their own inventions.

[@pokelol97]

for anyone seeing this comment. dont scroll down. just move on to the next video...trust me

[@AA123TD]

that seems to be the case when Inida and Muslims are mentioned in a video. Many Indians attack everyone who doesn't bow to their superiority and many people attack and belittle muslims. It is so sad.

[@bluesky2551]

Thank you

[@tasneem3807]

Thank you bro 😁

[@Rellowallo]

Thanks mate, very cool

[@spiderman-gt1mm]

Muslims are safer in india

[@Omegajunior2658]

That is really interesting. I always love histories. Hello from Ireland 🇮🇪!

[@Omegajunior2658]

@чукча казах раб Джунгарович No, not really

[@rashhd1497]

Greetings!

[@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540]

Yoooo conas atá tú 🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@1terminatorr]

The Arabs referred to them as Indian numerals, while the west referred to them as Arabic. I guess it was the Arabs who popularised them, and the digits currently used in the west are from Morocco/Algeria where Fibonacci discovered them on a trading trip. Also note the decimal point and fractions was added by the Arabs to the system

[@nitya5120]

And look, fabonacci number was also invented in india

[@1terminatorr]

@@nitya5120 in a Eurocentric world, i wouldn't be surprised

[@aplhaz.8374]

@@nitya5120 look the phone you are using was invented by europeans so you lose

[@messianic_scam]

@@nitya5120 The arabic numbers are not indians but of arabic roots cliamers claim them to be indian the shape of hindu writtings घख खिऔ ई घि incompatible with the this shape ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٩ ٨

[@messianic_scam]

@@Ibnmsrk It's nit indian its arabic numerals٢ ٣٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ are Arabic numerals how this ईइ चांगला छ आ औ खि can match with this ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ i know india has ancient civilizations but to attribute these Arabic numbers to India is big fat lie

[@ginnyjollykidd]

I think my arithmetic teachers in grade school got closest when they called numerals "Hindu - Arabic."

[@abdulahattia552]

Even the zero which represents nothing has been given the o sign by muslims. The Idea is very indian. But took almost four centuries to be placed to right of values. A long trip isn't?

[@bibeksinha1627]

@@mrjordan7304 go and search in the Google websites

[@okthen.2235]

@@abdulahattia552 nope it was Shunya, made to chipher to zhiper to zero! The first Zero is and was very much Indian ! Infact the Zero was represented by a big Dot

[@krishnakrishna3022]

@aiden nedai It was invented in india 🙄

[@MrLuigi35000Vr]

The number of angry arabs, greeks, and serbians in this comment section is too damn high

[@MrLuigi35000Vr]

+MrLuigi35000Vr See what I did there?

[@johnaayyy3424]

+MrLuigi35000Vr no

[@MrLuigi35000Vr]

Jonathan Koshy "The number"

[@davidjones500]

+MrLuigi35000Vr x > y, where y is the number of angry arabs, greeks and serbians.

[@scorpions7153]

+MrLuigi35000Vr Why Serbs XD ???

[@midnightmadness1714]

I am going to have a big poster of Al kwarzmi and Ibn Sina in my room!!!😂😍😍

[@SimonTheRock1]

Why not some Hindu guy that came up with the idea.

[@SimonTheRock1]

@@DAKEN711 I like all scientists who work for positivity. Hope you didn't want me to hate Arab scientists because it wouldn't add or subtract from me.

[@SimonTheRock1]

@@DAKEN711 Yes I like them. After all most of the advancements and knowledge we had came from the ancient Arab world and their neighbors.

[@astiackizakovic7525]

@@DAKEN711 they were both Persians . what do you mean Arab scientists?

[@astiackizakovic7525]

@@SimonTheRock1 they are both Persians not Arab .

[@Lll14423]

He called it the Arabic numbers because his language is Arabic, and those who supported him were the Arabs and the university in which he studied and became its director in Arabic (House of Wisdom).

[@jeojackson534]

"On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 820, was principally responsible for spreading the Hindu-Arabic numeral system throughout the Middle East and Europe. " He called it Hindu Numerals, but now we call it " Hindu-Arabic". Go figure...

[@nimrodbong8173]

@MOBA EXE CUTE hindu cause the makers were hindu

[@tanikhan1821]

@MOBA EXE CUTE bro hindu means hindustani the language written in the sindh province of modern day pakistan and also the people were called hindus regardless of religion. Hindu is derived from indus meaning the river

[@bidarvandi]

not hindu arabic correct hind persian

[@Ida-xe8pg]

In the Ye old days India was known as Sindu the word for Indus, the S became H in Farsi and along with the -stan suffix we get Hindustan the Persians call India 'Hind', 'Hindu' or 'Hindustan'

[@Abhishek-sr2pu]

@@tanikhan1821 Hindustan the land of hindus.

[@ginsan8198]

And most people in the comment section are and will be spotting on the religion part of this video, some (or maybe most) of them are and will be bitching about Islam in negative ways as if they knew all of it, some are and will be defending it in either good or bad ways, and some are and will be just trolling for fun. My faborite though, are some that come here for scientific reasons and respect each others wisely, objectively, and ethically.

[@mgr1282]

Khwarazmi the Persian. And It is not arabic numerals, actually indian numerals, He had a book named "indian calculation" حساب هند

[@emyrdk5874]

Indian numeral look nothing like the modern numeral we use today cause Arab improved it

[@sanjarniyatov7741]

@@rolex1231 you are shia. You are haromi. 🤮🤮🤮

[@sanjarniyatov7741]

You are shia. Course you, Harami

[@chanes4044]

@@rolex1231 Well, Shia are not Muslims too so...

[@chanes4044]

@@rolex1231 I never said you cared so...

[@lathavenkat4364]

Al Khwarizmi is a legend although school wouldnt be that bad if he hadn't created algebra

[@UCSMJCKA]

Al Khwarizmi learned Sanskrit to translate Aryabhatt who’s called a father of ancient mathematics’s work into Persian. His book Hind-Sindh is a literal translation of Aryabhatt’s book Aryabhattya.

[@desaad1725]

Lol. butthurt Indian spotted

[@bclassic2474]

a jsajd lol butt hurt for indias contribution

[@worfoz]

@Aaer Sseefr 0 % of our science is from muhamedans

[@thephilosophermma8449]

Don’t be a nationalist

[@olie171]

@קומפרסור יהודים"Arabs gave India its name" LOL! Nope! Try again.

[@mohamedalnaqbi161]

what an interesting vlog! i have few comments though: 1. I would suggest that you do another vlog explaining the concept of Arabic numbers (1 having one angle, 2 having two...etc). 2. 1,2,3...etc are what we call “arabic numbers” and (١.٢.٣...) are the Indian numbers; you can obtain them by adding an Arabic keyboard and switch to numerical values. 3. When I was a child we were taught that Indian numbers are what we used to call “Arabic number” and Arabic numbers are what we used to call “English numbers”.

[@mustafa047]

Great explanation thank you

[@phoenixsixxrising]

I knew the 'what' but not the 'who'! Thanks, SciShow, Al-Khwarizmi should definitely be remembered and thanked by anyone who has ever done a math problem! Just try figuring out multiplication with roman numerals; biggest numeric pain in the butt I've ever seen!! (edited for spelling)

[@th0r_0dinson]

So many haters lol

[@emes6333]

Jonah Safern hello from earth to ur smartass

[@emes6333]

MaL3K_XD OKAY!

[@glenralph5123]

Regardless of these haters beliefs, they can't deny that the Middle East was ahead of the game before America was even a thing.

[@lulm8767]

Glen Ralph And India was way ahead of that game while the middle east was still eating hummus through a burka.

[@lulm8767]

Glen Ralph Al khwarizmi was a plagiarizer

[@studiosnch]

In the Philippines, we are taught to call the numbers we use today "Hindu-Arabic numerals." Edit: thanks for the corrections

[@linuxlover55]

As far as I know, Al-Khwarizmi is Latinized as Algoritmi, hence, algorithm.

[@linuxlover55]

Lo and behold, that's exactly what he says at the beginning of this video. :P

[@akmr.mafiax6363]

No alhazen is another guy which is called ibn alhaytham

[@baraarjoob3859]

I've been scrolling through the comments and I've already read a lot of them but I'm upset because I saw most of them are conflicts between Arabs and Persians. My friends, you should know something. There is no difference between an Arab or a non-Arab except with piety. We are all Muslims. We are one hand. We help each other. We stand for each other and face difficulties. your skin, but unfortunately there are not many people who understand the meaning of this and the enemies (colonialism) have succeeded in separating us and making us fight each other So as an Arab our education didn’t teach me this numbers were Islamic

[@0yearsago381]

Actually it's Arabic numerals not Indian because: 1- Al-Khuarizmi developed the Indian numerals(१, २, ३, ४, ५, ६, ७, ८, ९, ०) into two types of fonts of numbers: -the western Arabic(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0) -and eastern Arabic(١، ٢ ٣، ٤، ٥، ٦، ٧، ٨، ٩، ٠) So basicaly he created a totaly new type font of numbers. 2- it's exactly like the writting systems just developing, for example: -Phonaecian alphabet developed into Greek then into Latin so if you want to name the Arabic numerals as Indian instead, you must name the Greek alphabet as Phonaecian 3- Al Khuarizmi was a Persian by ancestry but an Arab by culture, language, nationality and ethnicity. Actually I believe that all the people with the haplogroup j(j1+j2) are the same nation and they are all Arabs with different names so Persians Kurds Israelis Turks Azeris Akkadians Assyrians Babylonians Sabaeans Maganese Dilmunese Hijazis Phonaecians Canaanites Amorites Hittites Anatolians are Arabs. There's an akkadian insecription date to 2200bc mention the Arabs.

[@AbhijitZimare1]

Copied Homework. Not his invention. End of story

[@salihalraziqi4963]

Comments 50% trigered indians because you said arab numerals 49% trigered arabs because you said he was persian 1% math lovers who think he was a great mathmetician

[@spiderman-gt1mm]

He did say that this numbers was invented by Indians.... The Arab pples saying that...

[@mein3324]

@@spiderman-gt1mm but in title he mentioned it as arab numerals. That is like saying google is an Indian company because its CEO is an Indian origin.

[@__seeker__]

They ought to be called “Hindu numerals,” since we conceived them. Look at the numbers 0-9 written in Devanagari and it becomes immediately apparent where the world got its numbers from.

[@sanjoydey1030]

The fact is these so called Arabic numerals were Invented by Indians and called Hindu numerals before Arabs invaded India. The earliest recorded evidence of Hindu Arabic decimal system is Bakshali script from 3rd century AD and decimal numbers were inscribed in temples of 5th century in Madya Pradesh India.

[@ckl9390]

To be fair, he did say in the title of his work that it was a study of Hindu numerals. It's just the Europeans who couldn't differentiate between Arabs, Persians, and Hindus. They likely named the system after Arabs because that's who they would have directly interacted with to learn this system.

[@sanjoydey1030]

@@ckl9390 Well, then why make the title as Hindu-Arabic Numerals as it is called by many academic scholars of 20th century, rather than going back to the norm of early medieval period?

[@yashagrawal88]

How by looking at Devanagari?

[@Aryanthakur-yt9bc]

@@yashagrawal88 you blind?

[@Gamepak]

wow what a name... in short just call him Al

[@mos4695]

Al translates to The so that wont make sense

[@ratatouille1682]

What about Abu?

[@mos4695]

+Rata Touille abu translates to father of

[@lordleoo]

true. AL translates to the and ABU translates to "father of", and IBN translates to "son of". it is not common in the western world to be identified this way, but this is how arabic nick names and family names are given. the "father of" is just a nickname, used PERHAPS (my own theory) to identify and distinguish a person from his cousin or brother who probably had the same name. so his name translates to: Father of Abdullah, Mohammad, son of Musa, who is from a place called Khawarizm so the guy's first name is: mohammad his father's name is: Musa (Moses) his oldest son's name is: Abdullah (servant of god) (sadly my father nickname refers to my older brother, not me). his last name is: Khawarizmi (meaning: a guy from a place called Khawarizm). this is still in use today by arabs. a man's nickname is usually "father of + name of his oldest son". however, nicknames are not mentioned on official documents. but official documents will mention his father's name. arabs dont carry a middle-name. even if the father's name was a strictly masculine name, women will still have their father's name written after their first name in official documents. the full name will just be like: boy's/girl's first name + father's name + family name nowadays, family names aren't always assigned based on the person's home country. last names can be assigned based on different things. you will find people whose family name is a profession (probably the profession of some great great grand father) such as: miller, tailor, soup maker, teacher, scholar, speaker, preacher, carpenter, black-smith, gold smith, etc. some people's family name will refer to something totally meaningless: water-melon, cake, olive... some people's family name still refer to their home place from several past generations such as: egyptian, damascus, algeria, morocco, arabia, hope that helps.

[@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes]

But in English, it is just Al.

[@chan_for]

Mislabeled for several centuries in the west as "Arabic Numerals," the decimal system was conceived in India and transmitted to the middle east even before the rise of islam.

[@kunaldexit9176]

... and I always thought, in childhood, why our numbers (in Hindi) look very same as them (in English) but alphabets are not. Now I know. Thanks SciShow for clarifying. :+1

[@ingegnerelibyana2465]

Cause of the arabs who learnt the others west the Arabic numerals Look what others say about arabs and Islam and do not refer to what you in India say about us

[@abuzaformohammedaman9205]

12345 thise are arabic numbers not english.

[@kuldeeprana1908]

@@abuzaformohammedaman9205 123490 are hindu numerals and not arabic or english

[@mr.curious6872]

@@ingegnerelibyana2465 Correction *cause the arabs who learnt the other west the HINDU NUMERALS not the arab numerals cause we hindu created the no. System. I am eager to see your answer if I am wrong . It is loud and clear that europe knew the number system from arab but from where arabs got this 😂😂. Its simple common sense. And yes for your kind info if at that time arabs didn't transported the no system created by my hindu ancestors. We hindus would still remain to practice our number system . Its doesn't matter to us that you transported hindu numerals to europe 😂😂😂.

[@aum-nama-sivaya]

@@abuzaformohammedaman9205 No, numbers are Tamil letters.

[@onurshenol]

arabic or persian who cares? they were great minds. the main question should be "how did they end up like this today?"

[@ahmednaser6850]

yes ,unfortunately you are right but I am one of who want to re-establish civilization and I guess the problem is get away of our Islam

[@ajdinalshareef2370]

Its simpel "Westernization" Kolonialism and Nationalistic Secularistic Ideas wich of Instaled Western Puppets since World War 1 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire since then you got such fuckd up People like the King of Saud or Al Assad. And what the hell are you talking about Ahmed Naser? Islam under a Kaliphate builded and financed this sience in the Abbaside Calipahte under Sharia Law and Islamic Civilization. Secularism dosnt work in the Arab World.

[@Life_Is_A...]

Continues invasion of resources has weakened their infrastructure over the centuries and made it harder to flourish again, at the time there was a great dedication to knowledge from mathematics to astrology, i think such a civilization could have added greatly to today's database if they kept going,

[@ahmednaser6850]

لا أعتقد هذا ,هذا مجرد عذر نحن تخاذلنا ,ممكن تتفرج علي فيديو فاضل سليمان في التعليق السابق

[@mikecimerian6913]

I often wonder about how our world would be if the Mongols hadn't destroyed Baghdad in 1258. I think it would have been a gentler world.

[@Killbayne]

I'm from Europe and I've never heard of this man in my life.

[@raedq]

Well done mate! Great video and love that you've backed it up with the citations in the description. Fun fact... The X in solve for X comes from an Arabic letter (there's a TED talk about it)... Another one, Al-Khawarizmi is the origin of the word algorithm.

[@theupdater7677]

Thanks alot, Al Kwharizmi!!!! You're the reason I fall asleep on the first day of school!!!! >:0

[@cancel1913]

Hank is developing the skill of an auctioneer trying to cram as much info into these short vids! LOL Good job Hank!

[@muse_weno_wow]

شكراً لك وللترجمة💜💙💚💛

[@majidbouikken2773]

a lot of people on this comment section are showing hatered to Arabs, this hurts my feelings :'(

[@juliequinonez9393]

theyre just trolling

[@MegaSeraphimon]

heart feelings are bad

[@majidbouikken2773]

Joe Joe if only all the west is thinking like you! thanks bro! i really appreciate this, it helped me cheer up :D

[@ramzi4515]

most of them are insecure Iranians

[@majidbouikken2773]

***** did they stole algorithms and algebra? dude that was racist, watch your words

[@casschambre1974]

It's a shame that this history isn't taught in public math class. I think if kids understand where the information they are using comes from, there is more a context to connect with.

[@polandballhistorian8537]

CANT WE JUST TALK ABOUT FUN, SILLY LITTLE NUMBERS AND MATH WITHOUT A FIRESTORM ENGULFING THE COMMENTS????!?!?!

[@takshashila2995]

Germany: Hi, Poland!You mind?

[@polandballhistorian8537]

what?

[@abdullahsaif2065]

Great Video 👍👍

[@adityakossambe5265]

all the comments are just as i expected!! no one cares about math after all, the real soul of universe..

[@MrSami-tv6vl]

Grigoris Karelis you should know history before talking .

[@Peristerygr]

Another skinhead troll.

[@rohitbhushan8855]

Aditya Kossambe I liked how you phrased it up, "The real soul of the universe" but I think I would call it just the language of the universe. Maths is amazing. One of the things I find coolest about it is that it can not only be used for reaching the truth but also, in many cases, manipulate the truth by exploiting the limitation of our senses. By the way, are you a mathematician ?

[@israelphoenix]

Math is a lie

[@rohitbhushan8855]

Tiny Home Georgia No-No, its not a lie. Its wide...

[@MrInfokumaran]

scishow: Check about the Indian Astronomers, who were far advanced than others

[@nothingtoxicated5937]

Very good editing and historical truth

[@salsabile5899]

Wooow amazing ❤️

[@richardcarew2481]

Arabic numerals came from the Indus valley civilization... the idea of a "0" placeholder came along with the numerals... it revolutionized mathematics on Planet Earth this time around

[@bloodeagle2445]

Yes

[@adityasaini8161]

0 invention by Arya bhat source wikipedia and many book

[@ele5968]

Fibonacci studied mathematics at Bejaïa in Algeria. Arabic countries and North Africans write their numbers differently. The numbers we use today were transformed by North Africans then later on entered Europe. For example the two in Arabic isn't written like this 2 but North Africans always wrote them this way.

[@skullshotskullshot8572]

Febinacii also india

[@kayo3091]

Short, But full of the info I need.

[@benthekeeshond545]

One thing really baffles me is that the Chinese were in contact with the middle-east for a long time. But they didn't adopt the Arabic numerals and algebra. As far as I know, Indian Buddhist monks went to China during the 5th century and brought Buddhism with them. Why the Chinese never picked up algebra and the modern-day numerical system is either a mystery or a huge lost opportunity for the Chinese mathematicians and engineers to further their knowledge in their respected professions.

[@youbigtubership]

It's puzzling, yes, but I think there is an answer. Your question is a component of the 'Needham question', that is, why the scientific method didn't bloom in China, but in the West. There are other components and I think one of them is understanding Chinese cultural pride in their language's ideograms, the aspect which they refer to when they say their civilization is the oldest continuous civilization on earth. The intense memory work involved in learning the Chinese language is a source of huge cultural strength, but it makes for pride too, which makes accepting things like 'barbarian' mathematical symbols more difficult. It is no wonder that China has blossomed since adopting these numerals, but given the ethno-communist militaristic pride which now frightens so many people, I also reckon humanity has been incredibly lucky that China didn't get modern technological and military advantages before the West.

[@mattbabalo2856]

Although he has written his book in Arabic, but he was a Persian mathematician.

[@zaidjarrar8796]

that's because most of the middle east was one country under the rule of islam. the prayer and the Quran are only to be done in Arabic so most of the population spoke Arabic.

[@sardorbekahmedjanov1665]

Nemat Babaei he was from Uzbekistan

[@miabella4302]

Even if he was Persian, he would still be refered to as Arab and his achievements as Arabic, because it was the Arabic Islamic nation that was behind his education that made learning searching and inventing possible for him and for others like him. Take it this way.. today even if scientists in the US were Indians Pakistani Russian or Arabs.. it would still be called an American invention. Because it was in American universities or Americain labs. Got it!

[@ravishs4671]

Actually they usually came to study in india because at that time india had some greatest universities for like nalanda university before Islamic invasion on india

[@miabella4302]

Where does it say that it was destroyed by the muslims.. enough with the lies and the hate. Also where did you find that khawarezmi studied in india??

[@user-mr5md2mg3t]

Just Mir He's NOT Persian , He's Arabian his full name is Abu Abdullah Muhammed ibn Al mussa

[@miabella4302]

@@user-mr5md2mg3t 😊 مختلف في اصله.. حتى الفرس المسلمون يحملون اسماء عربية. المهم هو مسلم و اكتشافاته تنسب للعرب. اظن من يحاولون تشويه التاريخ و انجازات العرب و المسلمين (و غيرهم) و استصغارها و نسب كل فضل في التقدم العلمي لهم هم الاوروبيون طبعا يطعنون دائما في عروبة و حتى في اسلام علماء العصور الذهبية للامة الاسلامية.

[@user-mr5md2mg3t]

Just Mir بالله قد شفت فارسي اسمه رباعي؟؟ قلنا يسمون اسامي عربية ولكن اساميهم مستحيل توصل للرباعي او خماسي مثل الاسامي العربية... غير كذا الخوارزم ليست مدينة فارسيه هي مدينة تركية.. راجع معلوماتك

[@debjyotimandal4927]

Short,precise,informative video.Thanks

[@StefanKees]

... and wrong.

[@debjyotimandal4927]

@@StefanKees about what?

[@StefanKees]

@@debjyotimandal4927 The contents of the video, the claims are false. Wrong. Lies.

[@debjyotimandal4927]

@@StefanKees It's indecent to call someone lier until you have proved that his informations are wrong and he presented it knowingly.

[@StefanKees]

@@debjyotimandal4927 "It's indecent to call someone lier" Really? Are you insane? You defend a liar and accuse me of indecency? Bizarre. Algebra is over 6000 years old and the numbers don't resemble Arabic script. If someone claims to have knowledge and stands up and pretends to be an educator then I can call what he repeats a lie if what he says is totally untrue. He nm akes the claims, he has to provide the evidence. I have evidence to the contrary and yet, you prefer to attack me for telling the truth. You are weird.

[@emmawalker243]

They are actually called Hindu-Arabic numbers but the Indian knowledge were spread by Arabian merchants and therefore people in Europe call them the Arabic numbers instead of the Hindu-Arabic numbers (Hindu meaning Indian) so I really hope that we can get the name to change back to Hindu-Arabic numbers worldwide

[@loneranger4282]

Anyways most people now call them indian-arab

[@remedytee]

Before the Indians adopted it from the Chinese

[@saikishore7026]

@@remedytee lol chinese😂😂. It was chinese which copied everything from india( buddhism, kungfu( one of the old martial arts of india derived from kallaripatu) medicine, war strategies etc) . India spread its roots across the world. India has connection not just in this dimension but in other realms and universe aswell.

[@remedytee]

@@saikishore7026 Sure... 😅 didn't know we were talking about Buddhism though. 😂. Kishore... you must be Indian, right? I like curries 😌... Also, I'm not Chinese press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691154633/enlightening-symbols

[@remedytee]

That's a fact... you got to know them as "Hindu-Arabic". Arabs copied them (and gave them other names) from the moment they were part of the Silk Road.

[@Feeding-Stray-Cats]

I've realized that (1) if there is noAlgebra there would be no modern Math and physics and (2) No computer without Algorithm (3) one last thing. you know what?! There would be no Modern Chemistry if there is no Alkali (check out on wikiped/enskloped the father of Chemistry (alkīmiyā/Alchemy) is also a Muslim) and the funniest fact is.. all Fathers of Science are Muslims? AMAZING! this why we should treat and respect every human being and their offspring equally.. cuz all human races from around the globe have contributed with such amazing fixed proportion of knowledges that very benefiting to human kind (us)!! AWESOME!

[@gradyw3961]

This guy is the reason I failed my algebra test.

[@undercoverduck]

I'm simultaneously astonished and not at all surprised that I didn't learn about this genius in high school

[@AB-nb2ic]

Meanwhile, every time I open KZbin the #1 suggestion is yet another TikTok Big Bank "challenge" compilation video.

[@mayedalshamsi]

Awesome video! In university, we were taught the difference between 'Arab' and 'Arabic.' If I recall correctly, the former refers to ethnicity, while the latter refers to something along the lines of 'under Arab rule,' or 'under Arab influence.' It can be compared to classifying the work of someone like, say, Ramanujan, as Western mathematics, even though Ramanujan was Indian. I'm from the United Arab Emirates.

[@PKNproductions]

That makes a lot of sense. It seems similar to the distinction between "Muslim" (people who identify with Islam as their religion) and "Islamic" (that which is influenced by Islam). So there is "Islamic architecture", which is a style influenced by the traditions and religious ideals of Muslims, but a person who is not a Muslim could still be an architect who builds Islamic architectural designs.

[@mr2phones_709]

Arabic is the name of a language. Under Arabic influence would be referred to as “Arabized.” Very big difference lol. Kharerzmi was under Arab influence since Iran was invaded by Arabs. Does that mean he is “arabic?” 😂

[@mayedalshamsi]

@@mr2phones_709 - Arabized would mean turned into an Arabic form. So, if you write an English word (like computer,) using Arabic letters (كمبيوتر,) then what would be Arabized. I have no idea who Kharerzmi is. If you mean Khawarezmi, the famous polymath, then that's a dumb example to use. 😂 I was clearly talking about the sciences and arts under Arab influence, and not people. Your ethnicity doesn't change, every time you are conquered by new people. Can't believe I have to explain this.

[@TonyNaber]

​@@mayedalshamsi Interestingly, these terms are one and the same in the Arabic language itself when used as adjectives (عربي).

[@fufsayd]

Al jbr, algebra, al kemia, alchemy, and so many al, al al al al al.. Alphonso, always, align, the fact were there, but always way of denial.

[@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540]

@Muhammad Hakim I agree with this result, but can I ask why? As a non Muslim. I'm interested in hearing the reasoning.

[@Abu_Ubaida9]

@@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 astrology says that higher bodies are responsible for things that happen to lower bodies, as in planets and stars have power to manipulate humans and such. as Muslims we believe that no one other than Allah (God) is capable of doing so.