Research Into Indic Mathematicians

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There is one quality which the Arabs and the Arabized savants from central asia exhibited that by and large the occidental mathematicians have not, even till today. They have given credit to the Hindu for the things they learned from us, which the occident has rarely done. The Arab books have said repeatedly that they learned most of algebra and astronomy from the Hind and the Sindhind (Siddhanta). Saad al Andalusi was equally effusive when he asserted categorically that the Hind were far ahead of the rest of the world in certain fields. Such an acknowledgment has been very rare from the countries of Europe, after they began colonizing us in the 18th century and it was almost absent after the discovery of sanskrit. It was official policy of the Vatican to take credit for discoveries made in lands colonized by powers that were under the control of the Vatican. The calculus is a case in point . where the circumstantial evidence of wholesale theft in related field as such as Astronomy, navigation, the making of the calendar, etc, etc. is very strong.

There is an obstinacy among the occidentals to refuse to recognize even well accepted facts such as the number system as being a hindu discovery , even when faced with the evidence. A good case is a childrens book on Counting by Denise scmandt Besserat