Consider the title of this famous Great work wrote later : "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing"

It has a graceful theme which is perhaps not accidental for mathematical inspiration. The same symbolic methods, being symbolic could have been painted as "domination and sacrificing" but that might not temper a mindset as mathematically conducive as notions of "completion and balancing".

A cultures achievements in different areas could owe substantially to the spectrum of mindsets which it hosts and celebrates.