First mention by EU mathematician that calculus was discovered/derived in India
The following video by Mathologer was first released 4 days ago, narrated by Burkard
This is the first publication I am aware of from the West/mainstream that mentions that Indians knew ‘pi’ as infinite series, knew how to approximate pi with many digits after the decimal, and calculus was known to the Indians before Newton and Leibniz.
While I am somewhat encouraged by this, I have several concerns with this video publication.
Perhaps, for me, the biggest concern is that although the West or the larger colonized world now admits that a great deal of mathematics including calculus was found in ancient India, they now claim that the West decoded it better and brought to the world using better notations.
A related article on this is by Fermat’s Library in LinkedIn posted a few days ago about the notation of derivatives in calculus introduced first by Leibniz:
(See the LinkedIn link below. You can also see my comments there.)
Calculus’ importance is definitely not in the notation. It is in the core concept!
I have noted form the way calculus is taught and used in the West and colonized world, one may postulate why analytic calculus is neither well understood by many who teach it at the university level; nor is it used for solving any practical physics problems including in quantum mechanics.
So could it be true that calculus was actually stolen from India and reclaimed elsewhere? After all, the colonizers of India burnt many books and libraries from around 700 A.D. through many subsequent centuries.
At the very least, it now seems all but clear that calculus in Europe became largely dysfunctional and the claim that it was discovered by Newton and Leibniz is now being corrected.
There likely is some involvement of theft regarding calculus – although I cannot prove it; but I think that others doing research on this can and in time we might see such proof.
I think a book like the Surya Siddhanta from Bharat may have been taken to the Middle-East during 600-800 A.D. which was then taken into the possession of certain Europeans a few hundred years later.
Such a book contains a great deal of remarkable mathematics, calculus, astronomy, laws of mass and energy and much more.
I have some reasons to postulate that Leonardo Da Vinci may have known about such work originating in India and had in his possession such a book as I watched a documentary on Da Vinci in the New York Public Television channel recently.
I shall entertain the idea of elaborating on my postulate at a later time.
I continue to support what Professor Raju says and I myself see this as a grave issue: that being that through the possession of calculus and arithmetic by the West, they still failed to understand arithmetic for a very long time and they, including most in the colonized world today, still fail to understand calculus.
My assertions are further elaborated in my previous article in PSI on Newton.
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