Sunday, July 12, 2009

India 250 Year precede "The" Newton

There is a fact that a small undergraduate school located in southwestern India have found a few principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton says this is a new discovery. is it right ?

Well said Dr George Joseph Gheverghese of the University of Manchester, School of Kerala has identified 'not to train', that is one of the basic components of calculus around the year 1350. Meanwhile, 'attributes' this new calculus introduced Mr. Newton in a book with Mr. Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the century 17.

The team from Manchester University and Exerter also reveals the success of the Kerala school has founding "array number" and use Pi to calculate Pi to 9, 10, and even up to 17 digits behind the comma.

In addition there is evidence that is not directly stated that the Indian knowledge to teach mathematics to their Jesuit missionaries who visited India in the 15 century. Well according to this knowledge that they finally came to Newton.

Then, when reading the paper, read some of India, Dr. Joseph is also a secret which is then publish it through a book titled "The Crest of the Peacock: the Non-European Roots of Mathematics" which is the third edition book published by Princeton University Press.

He said: "First of modern mathematics is usually seen as a European achievement but the discovery of India in the middle of the century 14 and 16 are often ignored or forgotten."

"Brilliant work from Mr. Newton in the late 17 th century did not wane, especially when the work is related to the calculus algorithm.but name of school Kerala, especially Madhava and Nilakantha, mutually help each other find the other great component of calculus that is array number."

"There are many reasons why the contribution is not recognized schools Kerala. The main reason is the idea that exit from the world's scientis Non-European is not recognized or ignored due to the legacy of European colonialism and the other from the outside. "

"But there is little information about the local language before the era of Kerala, Malayalam. Some of the text and developed in the future, such as Yuktibhasa, where some of the documentation that mathematics is extraordinary. "

Dr. Joseph also added: "For some considerations that can not be suspected, the standard of proof required to acknowledge the spread of knowledge from East to West is greater than the standard of proof required by the spread of knowledge from West to East. The certainty that the state is difficult to imagine a western 500 years as importing knowledge and books from India and the Islamic world. "

Source: University of Manchester

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