[BITList] How Jesuits Took Calculus from India to Europe

[John Feltham]

How Jesuits Took Calculus from India to Europe
January 26, 2009

''At the International Conference on Indian History, Civilisation
and Geopolitics (ICIH 2009) that was held at New Delhi in
January, Dr. C.K. Raju presented a brilliant paper about how
calculus, an Indian invention, was picked up by the Jesuit
priests from Kerala in the second half of the 16th century
and taken to Europe. This is how the Westerners got their
calculus. Overtime, people forgot this link and the Europeans
began to claim calculus as their own invention. This myth
still persists despite calculus texts existing in India since
thousands of years.'' [snip]

An abstract of Dr. Raju's paper:

http://indianrealist.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/how-jesuits-took-calculus-from-india-to-europe/



ooroo

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Anon.



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