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The Crest of the Pea****: the Non-European Roots of  Mathematics

A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.
Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series'- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350.
The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in  books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.

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