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Post by MulaiAzhagi Sat May 05, 2012 11:21 pm

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-story-of-maths/



==> Good documentary.

You must at least watch Part 2 which is about China and India.

I am just curious. Do you really believe the claim that Madhava figured out a way to find the value of Pi accurately 200 years before Lebinitz?

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Sat May 05, 2012 11:25 pm

MulaiAzhagi wrote:http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-story-of-maths/



==> Good documentary.

You must at least watch Part 2 which is about China and India.

I am just curious. Do you really believe the claim that Madhava figured out a way to find the value of Pi accurately 200 years before Lebinitz?

madhava and others figured out much much more than that. here check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuktibh%C4%81%E1%B9%A3%C4%81

and this link that panini press posted a while ago elsewhere:

http://www.canisius.edu/topos/rajeev.asp

and the hammering in the western literature by people like rajeev sarada has finally begun to payoff. i saw in an american middle school textbook a formula that used to be referred to as heron's formula now being correctly renamed as the brahmagupta - heron formula.
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