GS Chandy
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Re: Can you translate from Sanskrit? Euclid's definition of
multiplication...
Posted:
Mar 14, 2013 10:31 PM
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Jonathan Crabtree posted Mar 14, 2013 12:17 PM:
> Dear GSC
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> Just as you wished you had learnt Sanskrit I wish I
> had learnt Latin.
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> Even though a lot of my time is invested with Greek
> mathematics, Latin and Sanskrit are perhaps the two
> greatest academic languages.
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> I am lucky to have found translations from Sanskrit
> to English online for the books written by:
> - - Aryabhata (Aryabhatiya)
> - - Brahmagupta (Brahmasphuta-siddhantas) and
> - - Bhaskara II (Lilavati).
>
> Best wishes,
> Jonathan Crabtree
>
Remarkably enough, I did very early on once have a year of Latin ("Amo, amas, amare, amavi, amatum", if I remember rightly!) when I had spent a year at a Jesuit school.
I must confess that it was a terrible bore for me those days - but I do believe it has considerably helped me with whatever skills I may now possess to understand/express myself in English.
I further believe that both Latin and Sanskrit would be most useful for many of us to learn - but the way they are taught and learned has to be changed very significantly. I doubt that this point of view will find much purchase amongst pedagogues at all!
GSC
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