Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c7.3

c7.3

"It is remarkable to what extent Indian mathematics enter into the science of our time. Both the form and the spirit of the arithmetic and algebra of modern times are essentially Indian and not Grecian. Think of that most perfect of mathematical symbolisms, the Hindu notation, think of the Indian arithmetical operations nearly as perfect as our own, think of their algebraic methods, and then judge whether the Brahmins on the banks of the Ganges are not entitled to some credit. Unfortunately some of the most brilliant of the Hindu discoveries in indeterminate analysis reached Europe too late to exert influence they would have exerted, had they come two or three centuries earlier."