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Re: Bharatiya Predated Newton Calculus "Discovery" By 250 Years
Posted:
Mar 23, 2012 3:40 AM
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:48:50 +1300, Ken Pledger
<ken.pledger@vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>In article <20120321YgIT@ZaFb>,
> usenet@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
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>> .... A little-known school of
>> scholars in southwest India discovered one of the
>> founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of
>> years before Newton according to new research....
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> This is not new research. Kim Plofker, "Mathematics in India", 2009,
>is an excellent general history of Indian mathematics, and includes a
>careful discussion of the Kerala school. She gives numerous referemces
>to earlier work.
>
> Ken Pledger.
It doesn't matter that they discovered it, they failed to pass it
forward into the body of human knowledge.
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