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 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 ...

It introduced Indian mathematics to the Arabs ... As William Dalrymple writes in his book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World: “From Baghdad, these ideas spread across ...

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 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.

Marcus du Sautoy visits an ancient Indian observatory, and explores how Indian mathematicians used trigonometry to make celestial observations. Using examples in right angled triangles ...