Some excerpts from @MeruPrastara's book, "The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and Why This History was Erased."
Every student, teacher, engineer and IT professional in India should get to read this. Spread the word.
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Every student, teacher, engineer and IT professional in India should get to read this. Spread the word.
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Hindus didn't just invent zero, they invented the place value decimal system. So instead of MMMCCLXV one could write 3265, and then do arithmetic operations *algorithmically* rather than by the Abacus.
This was revolutionary. No modern math or science was possible before this.
This was revolutionary. No modern math or science was possible before this.
It took a few hundred years for the Europeans to *understand* zero. Root of word zero is cipher or code; Hindu numbers were mysterious code! To the extent, that the Church banned these "infidel" numbers; but the methods were so much superior that people kept adopting them.
Along with the place value notation (PVN) came a whole host of algorithms of how to multiply, divide, the concept of negative numbers and how to operate on them, pretty much all of arithmetic we use today. It is natural all of this come along with the PVN from India.
While Arabs copied, and acknowledged, Indian sources for their mathematics, they ignored negative numbers and didn't really understand Zero.
Since Brahmagupta defines zero as the sum of equal positive and negative numbers, without -ves zero couldn't be understood.
Since Brahmagupta defines zero as the sum of equal positive and negative numbers, without -ves zero couldn't be understood.
"The operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division... are described by Brahmagupta (598–668 CE) in his book Brahmasphutasiddhanta."
This is what we learn in school arithmetic. No, it didn't come from Europe. Europe copied, then told us we were "backward."
This is what we learn in school arithmetic. No, it didn't come from Europe. Europe copied, then told us we were "backward."
It's on pre-order. Should start shipping in a couple of weeks or sooner.
Good question—we decided to do something to fix this. But we need to sell many copies just to break even. What part will you play, can you help? Please buy one for yourself, ten for your friends, especially "secular" ones. Donate to schools, libraries.
In the West, if not Europe, than the Arabs are noted as the source of arithmetic and Algebra.
But Al-Khwarizmi's book, Kitab al jam’wal tafriq bi hisab al Hind, directly borrows from translations of Sanskrit texts, and the book is literally called "hisab of Hind."
But Al-Khwarizmi's book, Kitab al jam’wal tafriq bi hisab al Hind, directly borrows from translations of Sanskrit texts, and the book is literally called "hisab of Hind."
This is what colonization does to minds.
They have no knowledge of math or science, wouldn’t know how to read a book.
Slavery is so deep that even when an IIT PhD providence evidence they refuse to “believe”
it. What does one do with this level of slave mind?
They have no knowledge of math or science, wouldn’t know how to read a book.
Slavery is so deep that even when an IIT PhD providence evidence they refuse to “believe”
it. What does one do with this level of slave mind?
Back to Algebra, Western narratives either attribute it to "Greeks" (apparently Greeks did algebra with roman numerals with no computation algorithms), or to Al Khwarizmi, who we see copied liberally from Sanskrit texts. In fact, symbolic equations are much older in India.
How did Hindus do algebraic equations? Read the book to find out. Meanwhile another amazing insight.
In Place Value Notation (PVN), 3265 is itself a polynomial to the base 10. 3x10^3 + 2X10^2 + 6*10^1 + 5*10^0.
So PVN required polynomial theory.
garudabooks.com
In Place Value Notation (PVN), 3265 is itself a polynomial to the base 10. 3x10^3 + 2X10^2 + 6*10^1 + 5*10^0.
So PVN required polynomial theory.
garudabooks.com
Have you studied it?
Pingala gave an algorithm to convert from base 10 numbers to base 2 and vice versa. Yes, its usage was for poetry, but it was a full specified binary notation.
Later Babbage credited Hindu insights for developing computation. Read.
Pingala gave an algorithm to convert from base 10 numbers to base 2 and vice versa. Yes, its usage was for poetry, but it was a full specified binary notation.
Later Babbage credited Hindu insights for developing computation. Read.
Later the book goes into trigonometry, the fundamentals of calculus, calendars and discoveries in physics and astronomy copied by Europeans. Yes, both Galileo and Kepler were plagiarists. Read about it.
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Thanks! Every person who reads this book with a scientific, rational and open mind will come away transformed. The stereotypes of "backward" Indians and "advanced" Europeans will fall away.
Please help make it a best-seller. #ImperishableSeed
Please help make it a best-seller. #ImperishableSeed
Bhaskar also dismantles myth of Islamic and Arabic mathematics.
It was mostly Persians who studied mathematics from India, and compiled the knowledge. This had little to do with Islam, some were declared heretics.
It was mostly Persians who studied mathematics from India, and compiled the knowledge. This had little to do with Islam, some were declared heretics.
Who will crack where the title, "The Imperishable Seed" is from and how it relates to mathematics.
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