Indian Mathematics c12.2
Indian Mathematics c12.2
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c12.2
The Arab mathematicians based their work almost wholly upon Greek knowledge; but the earliest of them known to us, M. b. Mūsā, flourished after Brahmagupta so that the Arabs could not have been the intermediaries between the Greeks and Indians. Indeed their chronological position has misled certain writers to the erroneous conclusion that they obtained their elements of mathematics from the Indians.