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I don't know, maybe 5% of the Jewish contribution?
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Eh. For several centuries, Europe was a backwards shithole and the Muslim world was where most math/astronomy was developed, AFAIK.
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Yeah, his statement is seriously messed up. The Arabs were focusing on math and science while Europeans were focusing on crusades, inquisitions, and church dogma. If I remember correctly they created the number representation for zero. They had a profound effect on math and science.
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Ok, let's play a little game. For every world-class Muslim/Arab mathematician you name, I'll list ten Jewish.
GO.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_ibn_Yusuf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Tahir_al-Baghdadi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhamma...t%C4%81n%C4%AB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_al-Fazari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Fazari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hajj...Bsuf_ibn_Matar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Sahl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Banna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Aflah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_ibn_Sinan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khazini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Kindi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_a...7taman_ibn_Hud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C5%A...s%C4%81d%C4%AB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Yah..._al-Samaw%27al
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_ibn_Thabit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C4%81bit_ibn_Qurra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%27l-Hasan_al-Uqlidisi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C5%A...q%C4%81l%C4%AB
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/history/arab/arab.html
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/arab.html
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Dail...998042208.html
So, please go ahead and name like 400 Jewish mathematician's. If you do that I could probably go ahead and get another 20-30 names so you would have to get another couple hundred random Jewish names.
What is that point?
Just so everyone knows....I am not saying Jewish people are bad at math or bad at anything. All I am trying to say is that Arabs have had a historic influence on math and science. Jewish people have also had a profound influence on math and intelligence in general as well.