Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.62
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.62
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c13.62
Undoubtedly they possessed a geometrical analysis; hints of which exist in the writings of more than one Greek mathematician, and especially in those of Archimedes. But this is very different from the Algebraic Calculus. The resemblance extends, at most, to the method of inversion; which both Hindus and Arabians consider to be entirely distinct from their respective Algebras; and which the former, therefore, join with their arithmetic and mensuration.94