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**Slonopotam845** · 01-02-2006, 08:00 AM

I think that it is true that a lot of great mathematics was done by Indians in the past. It is also true that there were some curious mistakes. It would be good to study why the great developments were not sustained. An article in this direction is written by a Swiss Samskrit scholar Johannes Bronkhorst : "Panini and Euclid:Reflections on Indian Geometry", which appeared in Journal of Indian Philosophy, 29, pp 43-80, 2001. I do not have a URL to this but if anybody is interested, I can send a pdf file of the article. Regards,
Swarup

01-02-2006, 08:00 AM	#8
Slonopotam845 Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 5,251 Senior Member	I think that it is true that a lot of great mathematics was done by Indians in the past. It is also true that there were some curious mistakes. It would be good to study why the great developments were not sustained. An article in this direction is written by a Swiss Samskrit scholar Johannes Bronkhorst : "Panini and Euclid:Reflections on Indian Geometry", which appeared in Journal of Indian Philosophy, 29, pp 43-80, 2001. I do not have a URL to this but if anybody is interested, I can send a pdf file of the article. Regards, Swarup
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