Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c9.10

c9.10

"Euclid and his school never meddled with *logistics* which was practically abandoned as hopeless after the time of Apollonius, while the Indian mathematician's turn of mind was nothing if it was not directed to practical computations. The fact that the Indians took the chord of a smaller circular arc as equivalent in length to the arc—a step which no sane Greek mathematician with a free conscience would have even dreamt of taking—ought to settle once for all the question of the dependence of Indian geometry on Greek geometry."