‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden-story-ancient-india-west-maths-astronomy-historians
Nirvana by Numbers
https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2013/oct/07/mathematics1
Related: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b03c2zvr
Many discoveries originating from South Asia have been wrongly attributed to mathematicians from Europe and the Arab world:
http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/d3ddePsFMHKZhHLmx1jAxL/The-men-who-knew-infinity-Indias-lost-history-of-mathemati.html
2014 Fields Medal Winner and Princeton Mathematician Manjul Bhargava notes
https://science.thewire.in/science/india-has-to-be-its-own-cultural-ambassador-but-it-has-to-be-scientific-about-it-manjul-bhargava/
“The way we write numbers today originated in India. I’m not talking about the exact shapes of the numbers, but the system of the way we write numbers. The history is that it developed in India, it got transported to the Arab world and then later it got transported to Europe. Europe learned it from the Arab world so they called it the Arabic numerals. The US continued to call it the Arabic numerals. And now India also sometimes calls it the Arabic numerals!
Of course, we had to wait for the U.S. to take a leadership role in changing things as far as the correct names – India won’t. In the U.S., about a decade ago, in textbooks, they decided to call it the Hindu-Arabic numerals with the eventual goal of changing it to Hindu numerals. And then when the United States changes it, then maybe India will!”
Related:
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2017/09/zero-mathematical-history.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden-story-ancient-india-west-maths-astronomy-historians
https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2013/oct/07/mathematics1
Related: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b03c2zvr
http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/d3ddePsFMHKZhHLmx1jAxL/The-men-who-knew-infinity-Indias-lost-history-of-mathemati.html
https://science.thewire.in/science/india-has-to-be-its-own-cultural-ambassador-but-it-has-to-be-scientific-about-it-manjul-bhargava/
“The way we write numbers today originated in India. I’m not talking about the exact shapes of the numbers, but the system of the way we write numbers. The history is that it developed in India, it got transported to the Arab world and then later it got transported to Europe. Europe learned it from the Arab world so they called it the Arabic numerals. The US continued to call it the Arabic numerals. And now India also sometimes calls it the Arabic numerals!
Of course, we had to wait for the U.S. to take a leadership role in changing things as far as the correct names – India won’t. In the U.S., about a decade ago, in textbooks, they decided to call it the Hindu-Arabic numerals with the eventual goal of changing it to Hindu numerals. And then when the United States changes it, then maybe India will!”
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2017/09/zero-mathematical-history.html