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24 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Sir,

-Law of the hypotenuse was stated by Baudhayana~1800 BCE

-Logarithm(base 2, 3 & 4) was first investigated by Jain mathematician Virasena~800 CE

-Calculus was invented by Madhava(1400 CE)
Without which most of the other equations are impossible.

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The rationale for dating Baudhayana to ~1800 BCE is that he was near contemporary to the well known Indo-Iranian schism which happened around 2000-1800 BCE.
The contributions by Bhaskara which benefitted the west but is still unacknowledged-
A small list of results by Madhava and/or his disciples which was transmitted to Europe through Jesuit scholar-missionaries sometime between 1580-1600 CE.

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"There is an unoriginated, uncompounded, unformed. Otherwise, O mendicants, there is no escape from the world of the originated, compounded and formed"
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