Quote by Ibrahim Ibrahim

“Sixteen is the first compound number that splits the Spanish tongue; a linguistic flaw that had its economical cost.”

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“This partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is obvious that the Aryan Romans culturally plagiarized the hexadecimal system from China. Not only did the former utilize the Abacus, they even…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

— Larry Elder

Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do arithmetic had…

— Keith J. Devlin

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

— Martin Amis

“(Latinx is the gender-neutral term we use to challenge the Spanish language’s gender binary.)”

— The Women's March Organizers

“He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he had gone…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

— Kate Bush

“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of getting on…

— Philip Jenkins