How ancient India changed the world, with maths

September 06, 2021 16:02

Courtesy, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

Indian mathematicians made seminal contributions to the study of trigonometry, algebra, arithmetic and negative numbers among other areas.

Perhaps most significantly, the decimal system that we still employ worldwide today was first seen in India, writes Christian Yates, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath, in The Conversation, and lists 5 ways ancient India changed the world with maths, here.

While on the subject, to read more on the Bakshali manuscript, the oldest recorded evidence of the origin of the zero symbol, click here.

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