Re: Al-gebra
Every educated person knows that the Arab world was a repository of science and art during the Dark Ages (check a list of star names sometime). It was a hell of a lot more tolerant too.
That was hundreds of years ago. What have they done lately?
As I have posted (a long time ago) Western Culture is a philosophy--a set of ideas--and regardless of what some people might think, it is not the personal and permanent property of the Europeans. If we don't work to keep it, someone else may pick it up and leave us in the dust with the rest of the historical trash.
Maybe 800 years from now, someone may be wondering why so many science terms are in English.