Talk:Indian mathematics/Archive 1

message: Who is this Nau, that is quoted? I could find anything about him, the quote would be much more of value if there was a link to who this person is.
--62.216.23.119 15:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nau

message: Shouldn't this article talk about Indian Mathematics rather than Indian Mathematicians? There should be a List of Indian Mathematicians article covering this material, and Indian mathematics should be about Indian mathematics in general. In short, there are probably too much lists. There's a lot of great material in here that should be written in prose. Borisblue 13:04, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. The article is more of a list of mathematicians in its present state. Needs to be significantly improved. -- thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK04:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article structure

message: Anybody claiming Indian priority in inventing calculus please quote the ancient sources. Don't tell me the dog ate them or the invading Turks burnt them. I want to see your proof!
::You want to see the proof? Go to Oxford or Cambridge.Your comment seems to be ridiculing the indian science and tradition. Almost all the original high value indian mathematics books were stolen from India and made available at Oxford and Cambridge around 18th centuary. Even before this Indian science and reached Europe. Sanskrit and many other Indian languages were taught in these universities, simply to stole ideas from the Indian books. It is a fact that Indian mathematics and science except Ayurveda, were never formulated as a solid systematic study like what the Europeans did. It was never co-ordinated. Instead the foolish Indian kings promoted poetry and arts. Even the science were explained through some ridiculous stories. Indians were even well aware of the theory of the origin of the universe (the Big Bang Singularity). Their concept also suggested the 'Singularity' in form of "Omkara". Also the 'Theory of Evolution' was first evident in the 'Garuda Purana' as Lord Vishnu's 'Dasavataras'. The idea is exactly similar what Darwin said some 3000years later! But the only problem lies in the addition of some irrelevant stories into this great scientific theory. Westerners cleary differentiated Science and Arts, but the Indians didn't. Here lies the problem. And it doesn't mean that Indian Science is underdeveloped. Surely, the Indian technology was underdeveloped, but not Indian science. The Indians calculated with precision, the 'Time Periods' and Inter-stellar distances of astronomical bodies and stars even 500AD. Does it mean that Newton and Kepler travelled to India in 500AD to teach Indian mathematicians how to calculate this?  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.192.94.150 (talk) 03:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for an excellent comment. Good introduction to Hindutva reasoning for unenlightened Westerners :) 212.199.22.107 23:24, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

text: PS  When I say sources I do not mean Hindutva booklets. Surely if some Indian mathematician 'long before Newton' used the notions of say derivative and integral in his work, he can be quoted directly. 212.199.22.126 00:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of work and ideas by Indian scientists were disregarded due to Eurocentric views of Western scientists. Yuktibhasa is the ancient text by Jyeshtadeva of Kerala School describing Calculus. -- thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK03:42, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So quote him. You seem to be genuinely convinced that Jyeshtadeva is the author of the first calculus text in the world. You surely have read this book. So please just quote some meaningful calculus passage from his book. 212.199.22.219 22:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Disscussion continues on Talk:Calculus-- thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK05:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hic Rhodus, hic salta 

message: how was the quintic solved?  or does my angloeuroamerciocentric racism stop me from being able to see it?
my dear Indian friends, please PLEASE PLEASE speak competently AND correctly about the contributions Indian mathematics have made and continue to make.  where's Ramanujan or AKS?  stop with this crap about squaring the circle and circling the square.  
--69.243.218.234 02:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: this article is shit