"It has been common understanding that mathematical proof based on deduction is universal and is the ultimate proof and also that mathematical truths are eternal universal truths. C K Raju argues that this is a narrow European view of mathematics and the Indian view was very different and empirical. Thus he has raised the important issue of cultural foundation of mathematics."
"During the religious fanaticism of the Crusades, all secular world knowledge in Arab libraries up to the 11th c. was appropriated to the West by attributing it to the theologically correct “Greeks”."
"This book brings new facts on the history of mathematics
and science that if carried to its logical conclusions should transform our Eurocentric
perceptions. The author C.K. Raju comes to this task with an impeccable hands-down knowledge of science
and technology. He was a leading figure
in the first supercomputer put together in
...
"He notes that the suppression of ideas has a long
history in
...
...
"Raju details
the transmission of aspects of the calculus from
...
"The
acceptance of the facts presented by Raju would be hampered by the contours of
the present rigged geopolitics of knowledge."
-------------------------------------- Read more about just how coarsely the geopolitics of knowledge
is rigged in
"Learned"
yellow journalism (Review of review).
And the
rigging goes on: Transmission
of the transmission thesis.