Thread by @Aabhas24

1/n #WorldMathematicsDay

A thread on Bharat's contribution:

"I once heard, and I think it is true, that only one man in the world—some Indian mathematician—understood the mathematics of string theory in eleven-dimensional space, and he dreamed it." - Kary Mullis

2/n We are told that Babylonians & Egyptians were the first to deal with "Elements of ancient Geometry."

Then I came across the interesting work of A Seidenberg, called "Ritual origin of Geometry." jstor.org/stable/41133224

He says: Egypt & Babylonia learnt it from Hindus.

3/n While Seidenberg gives very logical case that how it is armature attempt to think that Egyptians & Babylonians learnt elements of Geometry without Sulvasutras, we are also made aware about how the RigVaidik tribes had migrated out to latter influence to the rest of the world.

4/n Hence, undoubtedly, the Vaidik Hindu texts talking about Geometry had migrated out with the RigVaidik folks.

This blog of #ShrikantTalegeri ji might be helpful talageri.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-fu…

5/n This paper; <<Historical Contacts between Ancient India and Babylon by Gopal Stavig, Journal of Indian History (Platinum Jubilee Volume) (2001), pp. 1-16 >> gives very interesting connection between Bharat and Babylonia vedantawritings.com/IndBab.pdf

6/n The similar studies that how the migrations happened out of India & pass over of rituals too.

If there is an Indo-European Culture, it was the "Sanskrit Vaidik Culture,". It was culture, that was "Sanskriti", the one of Sanskrit.

7/n This gives you reason further that how Greeks to be none but those who had migrated out of India. The RigVaidik "Anu" tribe was the ancestor of Greeks.

Read this blog of Talegeri ji for more information.
talageri.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-id…

8/n While many people link back Babylonia as the source of Greek Mathematics, Hindus appear to be source of both.

I came across another great paper: "Greek and Vedic Geometry" by Frits Staal as part of Journal of Indian Philosophy (1999) citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…

9/n According to Staal, indeed Vaidik Ritual Geometry became the ignitron for the geometry in Mediterranean & elsewhere.

10/n I came across an interesting book "Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology" published in 1980.

According to the research of author Greeks knew India as the land of wealth & wisdom.

11/n Swami Vivekanand talks about Greeks having an influence of Brahmins of Bharat. He quotes Apuleius to have said that Pythagoras came to India to learn from Brahmins.

Source: Vivekananda, Swami. Complete Works, Volume IV: Reincarnation

12/n Further I again refer to Swami Ji. He makes a case clear that Pythagoras learnt philosophy from Sankhya Darshan experts. That was the begin of the philosophy for Greece and West and hence of Mathematics too.

Source: Complete Works, Volume II: “Sankhya and Vedanta”

13/n There is a very interesting book by Swami Tathagatananda called, "Journey of the Upanishads to the West". Refer page 384-88

The case is clearly made that how Pythagoras studied Upanishads & Brahmanas.

14/n I also came across this book "Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans" authored by Charles H. Kahn. The author uses primary sources to show that about the travels of Pythagoras.

He also talks about trip to India. Link to book books.google.co.in/books?id=GKUtA…

15/n I found some very interesting material & surprisingly from the archive of Stanford University.

It suggests that like Pythagoras, Apollonius too goes east to learns from the Brahmins like the doctrine of transmigration.

16/n Apollonius inherited from Pythagoras, originated in India and was handed on to the Egyptians from whom Pythagoras derived it.

Here is the link plato.stanford.edu/archives/win20…

17/n Then again if I refer to "Journey of the Upanishads to the West"by Swami Tathagatananda again clear case is presented that so called "Pythagoras Theorem" already existed in Sulvasutras, Baudhayayana Srautasutra & Satapata Brahmana.

Undoubtedly Pythagoras learnt from India