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I've heard of this before. Could you elaborate on those translated works? Perhaps cite some works that were of well known Indian origin?
by wozniacki 7y ago
I've heard of this before.
Could you elaborate on those translated works? Perhaps cite some works that were of well known Indian origin?
- kragen 7y agoThe Aryabhatiya, which contains the first known instance of the algorithm we use today for finding multiplicative inverses in Galois fields, is one well-known example. (Of course Aryabhata didn't know it could be used for that.) The Surya Siddhantha, from which we derive the word "sine", is another example. I recommend reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics