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 first century and had translated many Indian (Buddhistic) works. They (unlike their Indian friends) generally give the source of their information and acknowledge their indebtedness with becoming courtesy. From the 7th century Indian scholars were occasionally employed on the Chinese Astronomical Board. Mr. Yoshio Mikami states that there is no evidence of Indian influence on Chinese mathematics. On the other hand he says "the discoveries made in China may have touched the eyes of Hindoo scholars." 27. —It has often been assumed, with very little justification, that the Arabs owed their knowledge of mathematics to the Hindus. Muhammad b. Mūsā el-Chowārezmi (A.D. 782) is the earliest Arabic writer on mathematics of note and his best known work is the Algebra. The early orientalists appear to have been somewhat prejudiced against Arabic scholarship for, apparently without examination, they ascribed an Indian origin to M. b. Mūsā's work. The argument used was as follows: "There is nothing in history," wrote, and repeated it, 'respecting Muhammad ben Mūsā individually, which favours the opinion that he took from the Greeks, the algebra which he taught to the Muhammadans. History presents him in no other light than a mathematician of a country most distant from Greece and contiguous to India&hellip;&hellip;Not having taken algebra from the Greeks, he must either have invented it himself or taken it from the Indians.' As a matter of fact his algebra shows, as pointed out by Rodet, no sign of Indian influence and is practically wholly based upon Greek knowledge; and it is now well known that the development of mathematics among the Arabs was largely, if not wholly, independent of Indian influence and that, on the other hand, Indian writers on mathematics later than Brahmagupta were possibly influenced considerably by the Arabs. Alberuni early in the 11th century wrote: 'You mostly find that even the