Pretty sure he was ironically referring to their use of gold, gold and gold to make something "luxurious". That and saying it is worth X million dollars like a tasteless fool. That is not sophistication or class, that is blingy, classless, showy shit.
True.
But lets go back to the claim that arabic/muslims invented algebra, because in renaissance europe, al-Khwarizmi was considered the original inventor of algebra, although his work is based on older indian or greek sources.
The alexandrian greek mathematician diophantus (3rd century ad), sometimes called “the father of algebra”, wrote a series of books, called arithmetica, dealing with solving algebraic equations.
Mohammedan civilization in its great days was admirable in the arts and in many technical ways, but it showed no capacity for independent speculation in theoretical matters.
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