Al-Khwarizmi: The Father of Algebra

[django]

I've already dealt with your kind in post#23 quoted below. India referred to the whole landmass as will be clear from it.
Also, no, Persians used "Hind", Greeks used various forms of Ind, India, Indica.

Adi Shankara certainly did'nt agree with you, his four mathas of Bharat were no where near what is conterminous Pakistan!!! NB Adi had the good sense not to use the word Hind or it's derivatives for it was an alien term to him ..... as for the supposed quote you mentioned, it makes no sense that is why I am skeptical about it, I mean after all you guys can infer Saxena into Anglo-Saxons lol, seriously if this was true and I am totally skeptical it would be far more absurd than some ancient supposed historian stating the Volgan (river Volga) city of Barcelona, at least in the case of a Basque he could somewhat dye his hair red/blonde and walk the Volga without getting noticed, I assure you in say the Ghandaran region a Tamil would be seen as an outsider a mile away.Kudos Indus wannabe K-A

 

[KapitaanAli]

Adi Shankara certainly did'nt agree with you, his four mathas of Bharat were no where near what is conterminous Pakistan!!! NB Adi had the good sense not to use the word Hind or it's derivatives for it was an alien term to him ..... as for the supposed quote you mentioned, it makes no sense that is why I am skeptical about it, I mean after all you guys can infer Saxena into Anglo-Saxons lol, seriously if this was true and I am totally skeptical it would be far more absurd than some ancient supposed historian stating the Volgan (river Volga) city of Barcelona, at least in the case of a Basque he could somewhat dye his hair red/blonde and walk the Volga without getting noticed, I assure you in say the Ghandaran region a Tamil would be seen as an outsider a mile away.Kudos Indus wannabe K-A

A general Tamil is seen as an outsider even in the neighbouring state of Kerala.
The argument is that the subcontinent was referred to as India for thousands of years.
Note that the southern tip was in constant touch with Arabia and Greece. They never bothered to consider it a different geography.

Instead, they outright call Musiris, the ancient Kerala port, an Indian port, as proved by Pliny's words.
(Shankaran was born hundreds of years after that. And he travelled to all corners of India. But we're not even discussing that.)

And thus, "Indian mathematician" is a legitimate term for subcontinent mathematicians.
That's all there is to it.

I am not a stupid revisionist who'd say that there was no diversity. That's irrelevant.

(Indus valley symbols have been discovered at the southern tip. Google Edakkal caves.
But I've no interest in getting into that argument.)

 

[my2cents]

This is what I am saying.. that you guys couldn't come out of the holy land.. and probably others were not welcomed in your holy land as well. On the other hand, Arabs spread from Europe to Indonesia..

Also, please take a note that it is not just inventing something.. advancing it to a different level is something to cheer about... and advancement only comes when you share he knowledge.. and many minds then ponder on it..

By the way, Arabs never take credit from Hindus.. but why Algebra is called Algebra? because Arabs took this subject to another level + preserved their research in the form of books, + spread the knowledge to different parts of the world regardless of religion, cast, creed and color..

True. Not many books survived to advance the knowledge. There was lot of trade that was happening between Indian and Arab traders. That is how Hindu number systems were adopted.

 

[Rasengan]

You Pakistanis have to choose whether your ancestors were

1. IVC inhabitants

2. Sanskrit speaking Aryans

3. Arab , afghan ,Turk/Mughal muslim invaders

Your forefathers can't be all three.

You guys change your forefathers according to convenience which is too bad and an insult to your forefathers .

When you know diddlysquat then you should remain quite. Pakistan is a unique country where it's inhabitants can trace their linage from Arabs, Afghans, Turks, Mongols, Africans and the indigenous population that lived in the Indus River. So I don't know why you are having a hissy fit and poking your nose into our business. Clearly, you haven't been to Pakistan, however, if you speak to the common man they would be proud of ancestors regardless of their ethnicity.

When you are uneducated and haven't travel across the world, then a person can exhibit a mindset derived from way of thinking. In the United Kingdom, people can trace there ancestry from Germany, Denmark, France and Italy. So why would it be far-fetch to assume that Pakistan may have the same characteristics?

 

[django]

A general Tamil is seen as an outsider even in the neighbouring state of Kerala.
The argument is that the subcontinent was referred to as India for thousands of years.
Note that the southern tip was in constant touch with Arabia and Greece. They never bothered to consider it a different geography.

Instead, they outright call Musiris, the ancient Kerala port, an Indian port, as proved by Pliny's words.
(Shankaran was born hundreds of years after that. And he travelled to all corners of India. But we're not even discussing that.)

And thus, "Indian mathematician" is a legitimate term for subcontinent mathematicians.
That's all there is to it.

I am not a stupid revisionist who'd say that there was no diversity. That's irrelevant.

(Indus valley symbols have been discovered at the southern tip. Google Edakkal caves.
But I've no interest in getting into that argument.)

You have not made that case, some vague quote which may not even be accurate does not count!