Studying the mathematical accomplishments of ancient India and Japan uncovers a fascinating history of innovation and ...

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, ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

It introduced Indian mathematics to the Arabs ... As William Dalrymple writes in his book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World: “From Baghdad, these ideas spread across ...

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 ...