The US right has gone into apoplexy over an X post by Jewish left-winger Brian Krassenstein that New York City mayor-elect’s Zohran Mamdani is going to make the study of ‘Arabic numerals’ compulsory in the city’s schools. All western numerals are, of course, already Arabic, since the Arab world had the world’s greatest mathematicians in the […]

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