Quote#Wisdom
However, it is not unlikely that the Arabs, who received from the…
Quote byJohn Wallis · 1616–1703
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: John Wallis, in 1685 quoted in :Heeffer, Albrecht. ‘The Reception of Ancient Indian Mathematics by Western Historians’. In Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics, edited by B. S. Yadav and Man Mohan, pp. 135-152. Birkhäuser, 2011. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathemati.
English (original)
However, it is not unlikely that the Arabs, who received from the Indians the numeral figures (which the Greeks knew not), did from them also receive the use of them, and many profound speculations concerning them, which neither Latins nor Greeks know, till that now of late we have learned them from thence. From the Indians also they might learn their algebra, rather than from Diophantus.
— John Wallis
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