Under the Arab Empire, what subject was studied in the city where William Watson was later born?
Islamic mathematics
Title: Behaviorism
Passage: During the first half of the twentieth century, John B. Watson devised methodological behaviorism, which rejected introspective methods and sought to understand behavior by only measuring observable behaviors and events. It was not until the 1930s that B.F. Skinner suggested that private events -- including thoughts and feelings -- should be subjected to the same controlling variables as observable behavior, which became the basis for his philosophy called radical behaviorism. While Watson and Ivan Pavlov investigated the stimulus - response procedures of classical conditioning, Skinner assessed the controlling nature of consequences and also its' potential effect on the antecedents (or discriminative stimuli) that strengthens behavior; the technique became known as operant conditioning.
Title: Watson (computer)
Passage: The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! and, in 2011, the Watson computer system competed on Jeopardy! against legendary champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings winning the first place prize of $1 million.
Title: Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming dynasty
Passage: Josef Kolmaš, a sinologist, Tibetologist, and Professor of Oriental Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, writes that it was during the Qing dynasty "that developments took place on the basis of which Tibet came to be considered an organic part of China, both practically and theoretically subject to the Chinese central government." Yet he states that this was a radical change in regards to all previous eras of Sino-Tibetan relations.
Title: People's Party (United States)
Passage: Election Candidate Running mate Votes Vote% Electoral votes + / - Outcome of election 1892 James B. Weaver James G. Field 1,026,595 8.51 22 / 444 New Lost 1896 -- Thomas E. Watson 222,583 1.59 27 / 447 5 Lost 1900 Wharton Barker Ignatius L. Donnelly 50,989 0.36 0 / 447 27 Lost 1904 Thomas E. Watson Thomas Tibbles 114,070 0.84 0 / 476 0 Lost 1908 Thomas E. Watson Samuel Williams 28,862 0.19 0 / 483 0 Lost
Title: José Arpa
Passage: José Arpa y Perea, 1858–1952, was an artist of Spanish birth who worked in Spain, Mexico, and Texas and was noted for his Costumbrista studies and his landscapes of Texas.
Title: William Watson (chess player)
Passage: William Nicholas Watson (born 18 April 1962 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an English chess player who holds the title Grandmaster.
Title: The Watson Family
Passage: The Watson Family is the title of a recording by American folk music artist Doc Watson and The Watson Family, originally released in 1963.
Title: History of mathematics
Passage: Babylonian mathematics refers to any mathematics of the peoples of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) from the days of the early Sumerians through the Hellenistic period almost to the dawn of Christianity. The majority of Babylonian mathematical work comes from two widely separated periods: The first few hundred years of the second millennium BC (Old Babylonian period), and the last few centuries of the first millennium BC (Seleucid period). It is named Babylonian mathematics due to the central role of Babylon as a place of study. Later under the Arab Empire, Mesopotamia, especially Baghdad, once again became an important center of study for Islamic mathematics.
History of mathematics William Watson (chess player)