Any account of the classical sciences of India must begin with mathematics, for, as the ancient Sanskrit text Vedanga Jyotisa (ca. fourth century B.C.E.) says, Like the crest on the peacock’s head, ...

Throughout history, many groundbreaking discoveries in science have been made, some of which were centuries ahead of their time. Ancient Indian scholars, through their deep understanding of the ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

All this is rather annoyingly ridiculous considering that ancient India had many genuinely spectacular ... Many of these advances, especially in the fields of mathematics — the invention of ...

The nature of mathematics is elucidated by one mathematician's account of how a memory word used by drummers in ancient India led him to the classic problem of the traveling salesman's route ...

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World ... second, the spread of Indian concepts of mathematics and astronomy to the Arab world and thence to Europe and, third, the spread ...