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Indian Mathematics
India gave the world zero, decimal system, infinity, trigonometry and Ramanujan's genius
India ๐ฎ๐ณ 499 Indian Science
Key Facts
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Aryabhata (476 AD): place value system, approximation of ฯ (3.1416), rotation of Earth on axis
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Brahmagupta (628 AD): rules for arithmetic with zero and negative numbers โ revolutionary
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Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887โ1920): self-taught genius; 3,900 identities and theorems; collaborated with Hardy at Cambridge
๐ฌ Did you know? Without India's invention of the decimal numeral system and zero, modern mathematics and computing would be impossible
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India gave the world zero, decimal system, infinity, trigonometry and Ramanujan's genius