Mathematics

Professors J J O'Connor and E F Robertson in their article An overview of Indian mathematics begin with the following passage:

It is without doubt that mathematics today owes a huge debt to the outstanding contributions made by Indian mathematicians over many hundreds of years. What is quite surprising is that there has been a reluctance to recognise this and one has to conclude that many famous historians of mathematics found what they expected to find, or perhaps even what they hoped to find, rather than to realise what was so clear in front of them.

Needless to say that the contribution of the Indian Mathematicians is not recognised to the extend it should have been for one reason or other. But never mind. We present here some articles by the gentlemen above which give somewhat fairer account of the situation.

Negative numbers which are so obvious to us now (who does not have a debt of this or that amount), were nonexistent in ancient mathematics. The concept of zero which is so obvious and useful now took several hundred years to evolve in the minds of mathematicians. Read more about it.

Fractals are extensions of traditional Euclidean shapes, such as lines, squares, and circles. These have been used to produce beautifull patterns (there are other applications like researches in Chaos theory).
IBM mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot was first to produce computer generated fractal structures. Another famous person is a french man Gaston Julia.

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