Could Newton's Apple Have Been An Indian Mango? : comparemel

Did a group of Indian scholars out-math Newton hundreds of years before he was born? Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the ‘Kerala School’ in India identified the ‘infinite series’- one of the founding principles of modern mathematics and a basic component of calculus - in about 1350.

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