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Re: Bharatiya Predated Newton Calculus "Discovery" By 250 Years
Posted:
Mar 24, 2012 8:28 PM
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In article <13511379.131.1332594154437.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynbq18>,
fanabba <fanabba@aol.com> posted:
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> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
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> > Indians Predated Newton Calculus "Discovery" By 250 Years
> >
> > Hindu Press International
> > Hinduism Today
> > http://www.hinduismtoday.com
> > August 16, 2007
> >
> > www.physorg.com
> >
> > United Kingdom, August 17, 2007: 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. Dr. George
> > Gheverghese Joseph from the University of Manchester says
> > the Kerala School identified the infinite series--one of
> > the basic components of calculus--in about 1350. The
> > discovery is currently--and wrongly--attributed in books
> > to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of
> > the seventeenth centuries. The team from the Universities
> > of Manchester and Exeter reveal the Kerala School also
> > discovered what amounted to the pi series and used it to
> > calculate pi correct to 9, 10 and later 17 decimal
> > places. And there is strong circumstantial evidence that
> > the Indians passed on their discoveries to mathematically
> > knowledgeable Jesuit missionaries who visited India
> > during the fifteenth century. That knowledge, they argue,
> > may have eventually been passed on to Newton himself.
> >
> > Dr. Joseph made the revelations while trawling through
> > obscure Indian papers for a yet to be published third
> > edition of his book "The Crest of the Peacock: the Non-
> > European Roots of Mathematics" by Princeton University
> > Press. He said: "The beginnings of modern maths is
> > usually seen as a European achievement but the
> > discoveries in medieval India between the fourteenth and
> > sixteenth centuries have been ignored or forgotten. "The
> > brilliance of Newton's work at the end of the seventeenth
> > century stands undiminished--especially when it came to
> > the algorithms of calculus. "But other names from the
> > Kerala School, notably Madhava and Nilakantha, should
> > stand shoulder to shoulder with him as they discovered
> > the other great component of calculus--infinite series."
> >
> > http://www.hinduismtoday.com/blogs-news/hindu-press-international/indians-predated-newton-calculus--discovery--by-250-years/7015.html
> >
> > More at:
> >
> > Hinduism Today
> > http://www.hinduismtoday.com
> >
> > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> > Om Shanti
> >
> > o o o
> >
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> Dhanyavaad for your post !
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> Dhanyavaad for your seva to Sanaatan Dharm !
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> Garv Se Kaho: Hum Hindu Hain !
Indeed, Garv Se Kaho: Hum Hindu Hai(n)!
Dhanyavaad for your own sevaa to Hindu Dharm!
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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