10-21-2009, 09:41 PM
X-posted from BRF....
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Gentlemen,
I often engage in writing mails myself on issues supporting India. But here is something that I need Mathematicians/Maths fans to do.
Prof.Marcus du Sautoy is doing some great service in the United Kingdom popularizing Maths. He comes often on radio and TV. And in general a very open person. He recently aired a programme called Story of Maths where he traces the origins of Mathematics.
His home page is here: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~dusautoy/
As far as I know, he is the first person to have acknowledged the works of Kerala School of Mathematicians in public domain in the West
See here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/31368...the-answer.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It therefore came as a huge shock to me to discover recently that a school of Indian mathematicians in Kerala in south India arrived at this formula several centuries earlier. It should, in fact, be called the Madhava formula, in honour of the Hindu scholar who first hit upon it.
Ï was not the only great mathematical discovery made in India. Negative numbers and zero â concepts that in Europe, as late as the 14th century, were viewed with huge suspicion â were being conjured with on the subcontinent as early as the seventh century. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>It is important that we use this guy and pass on more details to him.
So someone eqipped with a good idea of Indian Maths/Astronomy books like Surya Siddhanta, Panchange etc should contact him and let him know the details.</b>
Cheers
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<!--QuoteBegin-"Neela"+-->QUOTE("Neela")<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->X-post from Maths thread<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Gentlemen,
I often engage in writing mails myself on issues supporting India. But here is something that I need Mathematicians/Maths fans to do.
Prof.Marcus du Sautoy is doing some great service in the United Kingdom popularizing Maths. He comes often on radio and TV. And in general a very open person. He recently aired a programme called Story of Maths where he traces the origins of Mathematics.
His home page is here: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~dusautoy/
As far as I know, he is the first person to have acknowledged the works of Kerala School of Mathematicians in public domain in the West
See here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/31368...the-answer.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It therefore came as a huge shock to me to discover recently that a school of Indian mathematicians in Kerala in south India arrived at this formula several centuries earlier. It should, in fact, be called the Madhava formula, in honour of the Hindu scholar who first hit upon it.
Ï was not the only great mathematical discovery made in India. Negative numbers and zero â concepts that in Europe, as late as the 14th century, were viewed with huge suspicion â were being conjured with on the subcontinent as early as the seventh century. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>It is important that we use this guy and pass on more details to him.
So someone eqipped with a good idea of Indian Maths/Astronomy books like Surya Siddhanta, Panchange etc should contact him and let him know the details.</b>
Cheers
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