Then we'll track its progress through our social group and interpret the results through the competing academic prisms of memetic theory, algebraic gossip and epidemiology.
In the repeated patterns of algebraic formulas and geometric shapes, the orbits of the planets, and the harmonious intervals of musical tones, the Neoplatonists saw a rational cosmic force at work.
Like many people who came before him, al-Khwarizmi worked out solutions to different algebraic problems and he spelled out algorithms, sets of steps that could be used to solve each one.
Four sentences, precise as algebraic formulas, sufficed him usually to grasp and solve all difficulties of life and commerce: " I don't know; I cannot; I will not; I will see about it" .