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Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
Numerical Imagination of Ancient India
The conception of astronomical numbers by mathematicians in
India made them stand well above the rest.
By Abhijit Adhikari
pragyata.com
May 17, 2018
Continues at:
http://www.pragyata.com/mag/numerical-imagination-of-ancient-india-518
Ancient Indian mathematics
By David H. Bailey
PDF:
https://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbtalks/dhb-india-2017.pdf
Excerpt from the National Geographic Magazine:
India's heritage of solving problems is often overshadowed
by centuries of colonialism and conquest. Outside Delhi I
visited one of the oldest monuments to that history . . .
pillar of iron alloy, smelted by Indian metallurgists with
such skill that it has remained rustless for 1,500 years.
(Photograph on page 533.)
These superb technicians were brethren of Indian thinkers
who originated the concepts of zero and infinity and
devised the inaccurately named Arabic numeral system,
giving the science of mathematics to a world drenched in
superstitious ignorance.
-- Bryan Hodgson in National Geographic Magazine, Volume
167, Number 4, April 1985, page 527.
Dhanyavaad for your post, fanabba jee!
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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