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Algebra (Bijaganita) came from India and was described by Al-Khwarizmi based on translations from Sanskrit. European historians then called him the "inventor of Algebra."
In @MeruPrastara's upcoming book from @GarudaPrakashan, he shows how equations were represented in Sanskrit.
In @MeruPrastara's upcoming book from @GarudaPrakashan, he shows how equations were represented in Sanskrit.
Yes, Western myth-making assigned knowledge to Babylonians or Greek. Because middle-east or Greece was kosher for Abrahamic and White European origins. History is steeped in White racism and Church fabrications. https://twitter.com/VisnuShivaPutra/status/1304629142583869440?s=20
Pre-booking will be announced soon. Keep following @GarudaPrakashan for updates. https://twitter.com/nirvana74v/status/1304634651416256517?s=20
Yes it bear investigation whether vertical equations in the manner ancient Hindus wrote them lead to quicker solutions in Bijaganit. https://twitter.com/GulamaGuru/status/1304642408253194241?s=20
Read this thread also and follow author and IIT Kanpur Ph.D. Dr. Bhaskar Kamble who has done fantastic in-depth research for this book. #HinduMathematics https://twitter.com/MeruPrastara/status/1257424345531629574?s=20
Very important. In the "golden age" of Arab Science they had a massive translation movement. They paid translators the weight of the Sanskrit manuscript in gold to translate it to Arabic. For mother tongue understanding. What does GOI do? @narendramodi https://twitter.com/amatya18/status/1293756229781618690?s=20
Al Khwarizmi names his book on arithmetic as Kitab al jam‘wal tafriq bi hisab al Hind, literally "The Book of Addition and Subtraction after the method of the Hindus" he fails to mention the attribution in his book on Algebra which is obviously from the same translated source.
Modern Indians have lost all contact with their own texts. Rather they read history written by Europeans who got their math from the Arabs, who got it from Hindus; and they regard this 3rd-hand knowledge of Europeans as true and repeat it ignorantly. https://twitter.com/IndianTrainFan/status/1304720615018958849?s=20
Yes, the "Prime Meridian" used to be the meridian at Ujjain. When Arabs copied Indian math and astronomy they retained this meridian.
When Europeans copies Indian math and astronomy from the Arabs this was ultimately erased. https://twitter.com/amatya18/status/1304726238523609088?s=20
When Europeans copies Indian math and astronomy from the Arabs this was ultimately erased. https://twitter.com/amatya18/status/1304726238523609088?s=20
He was obviously familiar with Hindu mathematical texts, and uses that for arithmetic. Algebra is a generalization of the Hindu Decimal place value system. How can you claim that Al Khwarizmi's algebra had "nothing to do" with Hindu mathematics? https://twitter.com/jcrabtree/status/1304734776612462593?s=20
No, @MeruPrastara explains this. The Arabs had great difficulty understanding negative numbers. So they read about the negative numbers but couldn't understand them initially. This is why Al Khwarizmi, copied Algebra but also missed out on this. https://twitter.com/jcrabtree/status/1304936436366417925?s=20
Both zero and negative numbers were conceptually so difficult for the Arabs and the Europeans that they took centuries to understand it. This is because these arise from Hindu philosophical ideas as @MeruPrastara's book shows.
