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by strainer 2496 days ago
Consider the title of this famous Great work wrote later : "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing"

It has a graceful theme which is perhaps not accidental for mathematical inspiration. The same symbolic methods, being symbolic could have been painted as "domination and sacrificing" but that might not temper a mindset as mathematically conducive as notions of "completion and balancing".

A cultures achievements in different areas could owe substantially to the spectrum of mindsets which it hosts and celebrates.

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>but that might not temper a mindset as mathematically conducive as notions of "completion and balancing".

Or maybe what would be considered a mathematically conducive mindset is determined by whose mathematical tradition we are following? Maybe there exists a mathematical mindset out there where "domination and sacrificing" are the requirement for conductivity of ideas?

It would seem to be a well kept secret branch if so
By out there I don't mean in the physical world, I mean in the world of possibility.