Saturday, February 05, 2005

the import of calculus to europe from india

February 5th

Dr CK Raju's work on how/why the differential calculus invented by the kerala school of mathematics and astronomy of the 1400-1500 CE timeframe was imported into europe.

yet another major invention for which the credit has gone undeservedly to europeans.

2 comments:

a correspondent said...

Like it matters.

Immediately after this, I believe the calculator was invented in Kerala too, which was first exported to China and then to Europe. The calculator vanished from the memory of Keralites when the factories manufacturing batteries shut down due to labour strife.

Anonymous said...

Matter of fact, it does matter.

It is important in science to give due credit to the rightful inventor. Besides, calculus is something truly important, as it was the basis of the flowering of technology in the Industrial Revolution.

It's not like inventing some religion or quasi-religion and then brainwashing the gullible, as Karl Marx did.