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he learned it at Bugia, in Barbary, where his father ascribe in the Custom House by appointment from Pisa, his is dated A. D. 1202.” Cowell9 s note to Elphinstone’s History of India P. 145. ° Mahammed Ben Musa is recognized among the Arabians as the first who made Algebra known to them* He is the same who abridged, for the gratification of Almamum, an astronomi- cal work taken from Indian system in the preceding age, under Almansur. He framed tables likewise, grounded on those of the Hindoos
which he professed to correct. And ho studied and communicated to his countrymen the Indian compendious method of computation.” Colebrook’s dissertion prefixed to his translations from Sans- krit Aljebra. “ Priority seems then decisive in favor of both Greeks and Hindoos against any pretensions on the part of the Arabians who, in fact, however, prefer none inventors of Aljebra. They were avowed borrowers in science and by their own unvaried acknowledgement from the Hindoos, jthey learnt the science of ( ‘ * )
