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The volumes of the Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization commissioned by the Centre for Studies in Civilizations of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research follow multidisciplinary, multi-pronged approaches to discover the main aspects of India’s heritage and their relations to contemporary Indian society.
This volume documents how and why the calculus developed in India, over a thousand year period, and was transmitted to Europe in the 16th c., without acknowledgment. To better understand this process, this volume emphasizes the non-universality of present-day formal mathematics—tracing theorem-proving to its theological origins, and highlighting alternative beliefs about logic, proof, and number. A new history and philosophy of mathematics emerges, and is applied to various contemporary issues: mathematics education, computational mathematics, and the extensions of the calculus needed for quantum field theory and shock waves. ISBN--- 9788131708712
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