On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Mano wrote: >> Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > P. S. Even Newton, Faraday and Einstein were wrong at times! > >> "On my "epistemic test", Einstein's conceptual mistake is proof that >> he copied from Poincare". >> >> More can be found at ckraju.net. Am not a mathematician and do not >> understand how solid an argument CKRaju has! Can Prof KHP enlighten >> us! Assuming he has the time and inclination :-) > > I am not very good at history --- even when the history is of > mathematics. So I cannot judge the value of remarks about who > invented calculus.
Thanks for your response, Professor. I was going through a math forum where Prof Raju had posted a requirement for research assistant in history of maths. In that there was a response from someone from Israel who also claimed there were references to infinite series (Taylor's I think) in hebrew texts as early as 13th century AD. After reading Raju's book I think there is truth in his theory that Greece is the fountain of all of modern science (and all of civilization) is a fraud committed by the westerners. It is unbelievable that while Greece was discovering all these great ideas, the rest of the world - India, Arabia, China - which were older than the Greek civilization by a few thousand years were completely idealess. It is sad that our present political parties are little interested in supporting research in these issues - issues which can truly re-establish our glory - than on issues like the existence of Ram et al a lakh and fifty thousand years ago, that he built a bridge across Sethu etc!!! While reading Raju's book I was particularly pleased at his debunking the SAS postulate and its siblings :-) When these things were taught at school we all used to wonder why such obvious statements have to be enshrined as a great, fundamental truths on which all of maths has to stand. Its nice to know even learned men think so :-) Another interesting excerpt for that book (am paraphrasing): When the greek philosophers came up with the theorem that states that the sum of two sides of a triangle is always greater than the third side, the epicureans, who always were derisive of the greeks, retorted that even an ass knows that - place some hay at a distance from the ass, it will always walk straight to it. It wont go to another point and turn some degrees to go to the hay :-) > > There is no doubt that every "great" scientist has stood on the > shoulders of others. Which I think was meticulously erased by the westerners so that Greece can be looked upon as the one giant on whose shoulders all others stood! > The one big flaw in most Indian schools has been the inability to > criticise and be skeptical about one's teachers. > > The one big flaw in most Western schools has been their obsession with > obtaining priority. Yes. The following is also very intriguing. http://ckraju.net/atiyah/atiyahcase.html regds, mano _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
