Indians too learnt Maths from Greeks, Romans, Babylonians: Amartya Sen

January 06, 2015 09:29

Although Indians had the tradition of analytical thinking, Indian mathematicians also learnt from the work done in Babylon, Greece and Rome, economist Amartya Sen said.

"To be sure, there was an Indian tradition of analytical thinking. The golden age of Indian mathematics changed the face of mathematics in the world. And later, Indian mathematicians was directly inspired from the work done in Babylon, Greece and Rome," Sen said at the Infosys Science Foundation in Kolkata yesterday.

The Nobel laureate said that with stellar outbursts of mathematical work in India, Indians also learnt a lot of theorems, proofs and rigorous mathematical reasoning from the Greeks, the Romans and Babylonians.

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