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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383299&amp;tstart=0#1383299</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Avinoam Mann writes:<br><br><font color="#660066">&gt;I am actually not sure why Antreas initiated this correspondence. The<br>&gt;destruction of the]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Mar 5, 2001 2:30:13 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383295&amp;tstart=0#1383295</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[I am actually not sure why Antreas initiated this correspondence. The<br>destruction of the statues in Afghanistan is surely a sad episode in]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Mar 5, 2001 10:34:45 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>MANN@vms.huji.ac.il</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383298&amp;tstart=0#1383298</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Stepping aside from the mathematical issues, a news report early this<br>morning (that would be afternoon, European time) claimed that by the<br>time]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Mar 4, 2001 12:51:39 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383297&amp;tstart=0#1383297</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[<font color="#660066">&gt;Thanks for your posting, Antreas.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;Omar Rumi</font><br><br>Glad to read that response from my old friend]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Mar 3, 2001 11:06:51 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>xpolakis@otenet.gr</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383296&amp;tstart=0#1383296</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Omar,<br>  Well said.  The religious and nationalistic pride that is the glue that<br>holds people together is also the first tool of the leaders who]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Mar 2, 2001 11:26:49 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>pat_ballew@pac.odedodea.edu</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383294&amp;tstart=0#1383294</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Re: Book burning etc. by muslims ...<br><br>[1] There is a typo ... the paragraph should read.<br><br>     "I am not aware of any book burnings by]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Mar 2, 2001 10:53:30 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>sesame@MCN.ORG</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383293&amp;tstart=0#1383293</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Omar Rumi wrote:<br><br><font color="#660066">&gt;Michael Button wrote:<br>&gt;</font><br><font color="#007777">&gt;&gt;Does]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Mar 2, 2001 2:17:58 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>xpolakis@otenet.gr</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383291&amp;tstart=0#1383291</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[At 5:20 PM -0700 9/8/00, Michael Button wrote:<br><font color="#660066">&gt;Reading in "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by Ball, I]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Sep 11, 2000 2:02:16 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>ion@ams.org</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library [long]</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383306&amp;tstart=0#1383306</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Here is a relevant passage from Gibbon, who himself doubts the veracity of<br>Abupharalgius' anecdote.<br><br>Hope this helps...<br>Charles]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Sep 11, 2000 12:41:21 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>cgseife@nasw.org</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: The Fall of the Alexandrian Library</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1383292&amp;tstart=0#1383292</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Michael Button wrote:<br><br><font color="#660066">&gt;Does anyone know where Ball got this quote?  I seem to recall that it comes<br>&gt;from one of]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Sep 8, 2000 10:51:07 PM</jf:creationDate>
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