Social Sciences, asked by rk54602050, 12 hours ago

Dear students,

You instructs to do an activity on Diwali.
Write a historical text on Diwali.

You have to follow the format of French revolution to depict the event of Ramayana.

Following points keep in your mind
- make one main heading.
-make sub headings; economical cause, social cause, political cause, immediate reason, outbreak of ram ravens war, role of friends and monkeys, condition of women.

You have to use word limit between 600 to 700. Use material as of your choice and availability.​

Answers

Answered by prateekshaandprateek
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Introduction to the distortion of World’s Mathematical History

 by Amit Radha Krishna Nigam

 

2 years ago



 

The Foundation of Mathematics as we know it today has a strange and a remarkable history, but one with too many distortions about its origin and too many ‘speculations’ about it true discovers.

Particularly a lot of original Indian theorems and concepts of fundamental mathematics have been incorrectly credited to Europeans, West and in some cases to the Arabs as well.

Three reasons stand out for this. One, because these knowledge bodies were transported from India to the west over periods of time by Europeans and Arabs and were translated heavily in Latin, Arabic [note1] and other native languages.  Two, merely because they were presented to the world in an organized form, while Indians were actually practicing them, rather than paying attention to documenting everything neatly. And three, a more deliberate attempt has been made by the prejudice of the Western scholars[1] towards ‘untutored’ ancient Indians, mainly because it was difficult to come to terms the vast knowledge bodies available here when Europe and the Church was still discovering elementary theories.

But today, a lot of evidence is available in the public domain to show that many branches of pure and applied disciplines of science, mathematics, (and including cosmology [2]) not only originated in India but was also pioneered to the extent that it took centuries for the world to realize, understand and translate it.

(For example – Indian astronomic material circulated widely for centuries before passing into medieval Latin texts.)

In Mathematics alone, Numeral system (as this article would argue), arithmetical principles, invention of zero, notions of infinity, the power and place value, decimal systems [3], geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus and many other mathematical concepts came from India. And nearly all such complex ideas and theorems and methods travelled abroad, mixed, modified, and interpolated with the ideas of the land it travelled to and were later wrongly attributed to either Greeks or Europeans thereby hiding their Indian origins.

The case of Hindu-Arabic numeral and place value system

 

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