Any account of the classical sciences of India must begin with mathematics, for, as the ancient Sanskrit text Vedanga Jyotisa (ca. fourth century B.C.E.) says, Like the crest on the peacock’s head, ...

Throughout history, many groundbreaking discoveries in science have been made, some of which were centuries ahead of their time. Ancient Indian scholars, through their deep understanding of the ...

All this is rather annoyingly ridiculous considering that ancient India had many genuinely spectacular ... Many of these advances, especially in the fields of mathematics — the invention of ...

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World ... second, the spread of Indian concepts of mathematics and astronomy to the Arab world and thence to Europe and, third, the spread ...