Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years

[Samlee]

you probably attended school in Pakistan, so I don't blame you for ingesting the garbage they teach there.

You Have Probably Attended Some Temple So I Cant Blame You For The BS You Came Up With On This Thread

 

[Mugwop]

Still doesn't change the fact that maharasthras are hated by other hindus and needed british support to fight the mughals despite having numerical advantage over them. How pathetic are you people hijacking and twisting history to make yourself relevant

 

[Stephen Cohen]

History is replete with counter-examples. The Vietnamese have over millenia thrown off Chinese rule multiple times. The vast sub-continent fell to a handful of British officers and soldiers because of in-fighting. The weak Muslim armies completely toppled over the vastly more powerful rule of both the Romans and the Persians. The list goes on and on.

You can try and stand tall, unfortunately, the trees that stand tall in the path of a windstorm are the ones that fall. The ones that learn to bend, remain standing through the storm.

We shall see

Anyway when and if the World gets destroyed in a World War;
then you can take Kashmir

 

[Samlee]

But remember they DID NOT convert to Islam

Our Rulers Were Never Really Interested In Propagating Islam.They Just Wanted To Prolong Their Rule

 

[gslv mk3]

But an infinite series along with it's total conceptual depth ?

the arabs didn't pick it up. Sad

 

[Hiptullha]

there's nothing egalitarian or 'recent' about the barbaric nature on which islam was built.

As a Muslim, I can stand side to side with Egyptian or Indonesian or Nigerian or American, pray alongside them and call them my brother with no repercussions. As a Hindu Dalit, god knows what would happen to me if I entered the monkey temple designated for upper-caste Hindus.

May be you should yourself educate yourself on how the caliphate wars, the Ali episodes etc started right with Mhd's time.

That was a political issue. What are you trying to spin it off as? It's not even remotely compared to centuries of bigotry between rock-worshippers.

Rest of your post is the usual impotent rage of inferiors and ignored.

Heh, buddy, I'm not the one whining about someone else converting to another faith. PDF Hindus are the definition of effeminacy and impotence, so butt-blasted by the fact that they can't fulfill their Akhand Bharat wetdreams, they come here to shout at us.

 

[gslv mk3]

Dr George Gheverghese Joseph

Next question: Where is he from in India? Do I smell a Keralite?

He is a Mallu. Is that a problem ?

 

[Stephen Cohen]

Still doesn't change the fact that maharasthras are hated by other hindus and needed british support to fight the mughals despite having numerical advantage over them. How pathetic are you people hijacking and twisting history to make yourself relevant

Hello : Mughal empire was done and dusted long before the British established themselves
in India

The Mughal empire was just CONFINED to DELHI ; that is all

And MARATHAS never allied with British to fight with other Indian states

DONT make HISTORY

 

[Hiptullha]

But remember they DID NOT convert to Islam

What's your point? They helped the British and have kept generations of Hindutva nutters sleepless for centuries. What else could I ask for

 

[The Eagle]

Now this is perfectly okay @The Eagle

One must check the whole conversation as well.

Thread closed for trolling/flame-baiting/off-topic discussion.

 

[Suriya]

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/indians-predated-newton-discovery-by-250-years/

Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years

A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.

Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series'- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350.

The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.

The team from the Universities of Manchester and Exeter reveal the Kerala School also discovered what amounted to the Pi series and used it to calculate Pi correct to 9, 10 and later 17 decimal places.

And there is strong circumstantial evidence that the Indians passed on their discoveries to mathematically knowledgeable Jesuit missionaries who visited India during the fifteenth century.

That knowledge, they argue, may have eventually been passed on to Newton himself.

Dr Joseph made the revelations while trawling through obscure Indian papers for a yet to be published third edition of his best selling book 'The Crest of the Peacock: the Non-European Roots of Mathematics' by Princeton University Press.

He said: "The beginnings of modern maths is usually seen as a European achievement but the discoveries in medieval India between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries have been ignored or forgotten.

"The brilliance of Newton's work at the end of the seventeenth century stands undiminished - especially when it came to the algorithms of calculus.

"But other names from the Kerala School, notably Madhava and Nilakantha, should stand shoulder to shoulder with him as they discovered the other great component of calculus- infinite series.

"There were many reasons why the contribution of the Kerala school has not been acknowledged - a prime reason is neglect of scientific ideas emanating from the Non-European world - a legacy of European colonialism and beyond.

"But there is also little knowledge of the medieval form of the local language of Kerala, Malayalam, in which some of most seminal texts, such as the Yuktibhasa, from much of the documentation of this remarkable mathematics is written."

He added: "For some unfathomable reasons, the standard of evidence required to claim transmission of knowledge from East to West is greater than the standard of evidence required to knowledge from West to East.

"Certainly it's hard to imagine that the West would abandon a 500-year-old tradition of importing knowledge and books from India and the Islamic world.

"But we've found evidence which goes far beyond that: for example, there was plenty of opportunity to collect the information as European Jesuits were present in the area at that time.

"They were learned with a strong background in maths and were well versed in the local languages.

"And there was strong motivation: Pope Gregory XIII set up a committee to look into modernising the Julian calendar.

"On the committee was the German Jesuit astronomer/mathematician Clavius who repeatedly requested information on how people constructed calendars in other parts of the world. The Kerala School was undoubtedly a leading light in this area.

"Similarly there was a rising need for better navigational methods including keeping accurate time on voyages of exploration and large prizes were offered to mathematicians who specialised in astronomy.

"Again, there were many such requests for information across the world from leading Jesuit researchers in Europe. Kerala mathematicians were hugely skilled in this area."


Erratum

Since the publication of this news release it has come to the attention of the University of Manchester that other researchers have made a significant contribution to knowledge on the transfer of Kerala Mathematics to Europe. The University would particularly like to recognise the significant body of work conducted by Professor CK Raju in this area and would have wished to acknowledge this in the original news release.

Date: 29.04.10