08-25-2007, 01:14 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Aug 23 2007, 01:23 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Aug 23 2007, 01:23 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hope the recent findings of some UK-based historic-researchers have reached you</b> - they have shown that a distinguished Kairaliya tradition of Indic Mathematicians (e.g. Neelakantha) that continued till 13th c, must be credited with the founding of calculus - centuries before Newton. And not only that it is not a coincidence that Europe/Newton suddenly discovered the subject - Jesuit missionaries and other Europeans of the period have the credit of smuggling / translating the Indic Mathematic treatise and transporting to Europe.
<b>This was widely reported in Indian news papers last week.</b>
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<b>This was widely reported in Indian news papers last week.</b>
[right][snapback]72392[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Bodhi, would you post (any of) these links if you can? Thanks.