Nick Hornby on Substack: "He might have been one of the leading scholars in the House of Wisdom, but he wasn’t clever enough to see how one day he’d be introducing me to Lake Street Drive on Spotify…. This seems like an archetypal Substack experience: you browse, and learn something delightful. Thank yo…"

He might have been one of the leading scholars in the House of Wisdom, but he wasn’t clever enough to see how one day he’d be introducing me to Lake Street Drive on Spotify….

This seems like an archetypal Substack experience: you browse, and learn something delightful. Thank you

Elif Shafak

Jul 9

Words I love, words I breathe.

One of the most widely used words today is “algorithm”. But few people know its origin.

It comes to us via a 9th century Muslim astronomer and mathematician, al-Khwārizmī.

He was one of the leading scholars in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad at the time.

He made remarkable contributions to geography, astronom…

Jul 11

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