Re-posting this for the benefit of all the *new* readers of this blog..From the archives, a post on the Hindu contribution to development of Mathematics..Read on and share…
Whenever I read about the great “Arabic” contribution to Mathematics and Science (often in an apologetic tone of “how could these great people come to such a pass?”) the thing that really upsets me is the complete omission of any reference to the Hindu contribution to mathematics and numbers.
Slightly more than a year ago (Aug ’04), in an article in the Sunday Times, …