Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c8.3

c8.3

The mathematician who systematized the earlier algebraic knowledge of the Hindus and thus became the founder of a new science is Aryabhata (born A.D. 476 at Pataliputra on the Ganges in Eastern India). He was thus over a century later than Diophantus; but Smith proves that neither in methods nor in achievements could the Greek be the inspirer of the Hindu.³³