Why were indians so good at math? >Bhāskara's work

who knows

>>2743505
>Indians
>list one person rather than across a whole culture

>>2743524
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_mathematicians

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Because pagan gods help them with equations.

>>2743524
>Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number,[4] negative numbers,[5] arithmetic, and algebra.[6] In addition, trigonometry[7] was further advanced in India, and, in particular, the modern definitions of sine and cosine were developed there.[8] These mathematical concepts were transmitted to the Middle East, China, and Europe[6] and led to further developments that now form the foundations of many areas of mathematics.

>>2743505
There is a pretty interesting point in history where Europeans suddenly gain lots of knowledge base, we attribute this as a stroke of genius. However the reality maybe bit murky. Many of those knowledge obtained from "stroke of genius" have few things in common. 1) its already known in the ancient world 2) the location where its known has contact with active missions.

These things happen roughly around same time during age of exploration phase.

There are dissertations which claim there was a moment in time where these things could happen with all the right ingredients mixed together. Be it the motives of the Europeans making these discoveries, or the time period, or the means to do so, etc.

It wasn't simply Indian math, but ideas in general from non-Europeans were being "discovered" by Europeans as their own invention. There was a paper I read about Gopnik few years ago regarding the possible link into this.

>>2743635
The pure amount of work in the maths and sciences by groups like the Jesuits is severely underrepresented. That has more to do with it than anything.

>>2743532
This dude was a fuckin genius

>>2743647

But aren't the Jesuits a backstabbing organization which has puppet institutions all around the world?

He was a genius, no doubt about it. His discoveries were many. I can only wager that because there was a state supporting thinkers there was room for people of his caliber to work. Something that Europe didn't really have a lot of at the time. What about China?

>>2743655
Imagine what he could have achieved if he had a formal education.