In the twelfth century, for example, Bhāskara demonstrated correctly that <math>\sqrt{3}</math> + <math>\sqrt{12}</math> = <math>3\sqrt{3},</math> an… - David Berlinski

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In the twelfth century, for example, Bhāskara demonstrated correctly that <math>\sqrt{3}</math> + <math>\sqrt{12}</math> = <math>3\sqrt{3},</math> an achievement, I might add, utterly beyond the collective intellectual power, say, of the English department at Duke University. (It is pleasant to imagine members of the department sitting together in a long lecture hall, Marxists to one side, deconstructionists to the other, abusing one another roundly as they grapple with the problem.)