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My understanding is that some schools in India teach it as the "Pythagorean theorem" and others as the "Baudhayan theorem" - the choice of which term to use is
by ummonk 5y ago
My understanding is that some schools in India teach it as the "Pythagorean theorem" and others as the "Baudhayan theorem" - the choice of which term to use is definitely a colonial issue.
- throw13579 5y agoAgreed with ummonk. This is not a pre-colonial issue. This is an issue of colonial-era politics. The dating of many Indian texts was performed by European indologists who were funded by then-colonial governments in a then-colonized India with a view to advance the biblical worldview that the universe is about 6000 years old [1], which any reasonable thinker now knows is pure hogwash [2]. So Indian texts are, in fact, probably a lot older. I believe that a now-decolonized India needs to pay closer attention to its history. [1] https://www.letu.edu/academics/arts-and-sciences/files/age-of-earth.pdf https://www.letu.edu/academics/arts-and-sciences/files/age-o... [2] https://www.nationalgeographic.org/topics/resource-library-age-earth/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/topics/resource-library-a...