Indian contributions have not been given due acknowledgement in modern history. Many discoveries and inventions by Indian mathematicians are presently culturally attributed to their western counterparts, as a result of Eurocentrism.
The historian Florian Cajori, one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in the early 20th century, suggested that ';Diophantus, the father of Greek algebra, got the first algebraic knowledge from India.'; This theory is supported by evidence of continuous contact between India and the Hellenistic world from the late 4th century BC, and earlier evidence that the eminent Greek mathematician Pythagoras studied in India, which further 'throws open' the Eurocentric ideal.
More recently, evidence has been unearthed that reveals that the foundations of calculus were laid in India, at the Kerala School. Some scholars have suggested that calculus and other mathematics of India were transmitted to Europe through the trade route from Kerala by traders and Jesuit missionaries. Kerala was in continuous contact with China, Arabia, and from around 1500, Europe as well, thus transmission would have been possible. There is no direct evidence by way of relevant manuscripts but the evidence of methodological similarities, communication routes and a suitable chronology for transmission is hard to dismiss.
Further information: Possible transmission of Kerala mathematics to EuropeWhy do some Islamic websites still make false claims about Mathematics?
The so called Pythagorean therom was proven in India at least 600 years before Pythagoras was born. The Indian texts have an accurate measure of an angstrom, working electrical batteries, etc. Even the American Revolutionary War was fought by Britains Generals that were left over from the campaign in India going on at the same time. The US fought the scrubs because the Indians had rocketry. The So Called Aryan Invasion has no support, was obviously politically and religiously motivated, and is still being taught today. India has offered the highest in thought for millenia, and has had its economic wealth stolen since antiquity. They had metal recurve bows when we Europeans were still crawling around in the muck. Most of history is questionable.Why do some Islamic websites still make false claims about Mathematics?
there are some claims from india without proves. ask the Islamic scientist for their own inventions. there are no books from India about math..
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This is a nice history lesson - but what are the Islamic websites making the false claims?
Like what 2 + 2 = 7
That is true but wikipedia isn't an islamic website. indians did do those thngs. they invented the present number system and zero.
Also from Wikipedia:
The word ';algebra'; is named after the Arabic word ';al-jabr'; from the title of the book al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala, meaning The book of Summary Concerning Calculating by Transposition and Reduction, a book written by the Persian Muslim mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī in 820. The word al-jabr means ';reunion';. Al-Khwarizmi is often considered the ';father of algebra'; (though that title is also given to Diophantus), as much of his works on reduction are still in use today. Another Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam developed algebraic geometry and found the general geometric solution of the cubic equation. The Indian mathematicians Mahavira and Bhaskara, and the Chinese mathematician Zhu Shijie, solved various cubic, quartic, quintic and higher-order polynomial equations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra#His…
Also see for some history of Islamic mathematics and mathematicians - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_mat…
I would be very much interested in which websites you have looked at and what these 'false claims' really are? :)
because they are dillusioned.
is it same india where people beleived travelling on sea will anger the gods. some even beleive today that all earth was india. where mountains, bid trees snakes and onkeys are all gods including money. which is actually prayed to even today.
i would say come to real world and see what happened in the world b/w 7th century AD and 10th century AD.
please stop saying everything is indian, it doesn't make it so.
yawn yawn
thats is right. If you notice that is done by Islamic websites mostly. I think islam has got enough defame in the world. They are now best known as terrorists.
So they have started potraying themsalves as inventors(of mathmatics and many other things) and peace-makers to diminish thier destructive and terrorist image.
Thanks
. . . does it really matter how many wives or concubines the guy had? Isn't it more important that we stop fighting? . . .
Um, you have apparently missed a few things:
* India =!= Islam. India has many religions.
* Wikipedia is not an Islamic website. You probably don't know that you can make modifications to it yourself.
* Islam did not emerge in India until about a century after the death of Muhammed, which would be around the 7th century AD.
FYI, I'm not a Muslim, it just bothers me that people these days are so anti-Islam because of a few extremist groups.
Yet you should check out the creation science ones, they are the funniest and most absurd website around, talk about false claims.
What is it that you are trying to ask???
Islam is of Satan.
it's called faith.
your comments are more or less correct but, these discoveries were made before the curse of mohommedanism fell on the indian sub-continent.
By the way, wikipedia is not an islamic web site so, since you refer to them in your question, where are they?
ok now you are talking crazy!!!
why let your hate change the history??
dont be so bitter.
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