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Publication highlights scientific advances from Muslim societies
📅 1 February 2010The article presents mathematics and science in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus and Córdoba as central chapters of world history.
Algebra is situated in an Arabic scholarly network
📅 1 February 2010Al-Khwarizmi systematized equation-solving while drawing on and extending Indian, Persian and Greek knowledge.
Translation is presented as creative scholarship
📅 1 February 2010Scientists did not merely preserve older texts; they criticized, recombined and expanded them.
Public history challenges the idea of a European miracle
📅 1 February 2010The publication emphasizes that later European science depended on centuries of intercultural circulation.
The Maya combine cycles of different lengths
📅 21 December 2012The 260-day ritual count and other interlocking cycles demonstrate modular thinking and systematic enumeration.
Maya numerals use a vigesimal place-value system
📅 21 December 2012Dots, bars and a shell-shaped zero made it possible to represent large numbers compactly.
The article counters apocalyptic misreadings
📅 21 December 2012It explains that the calendar's cycle ending was a mathematical rollover, not a prediction of the world's destruction.
Publication explains the Maya calendar and zero
📅 21 December 2012A 21 December 2012 article uses the end of a Long Count cycle to explain Maya calendrical mathematics.
Publication visits the Gwalior zero inscription
📅 7 October 2013The 7 October 2013 article examines an Indian temple inscription containing circular zero symbols.
Gwalior preserves zero within place-value numerals
📅 7 October 2013Numbers in the inscription show zero functioning as a written positional digit in practical measurement and donation records.
The article traces numerals from India through the Islamic world
📅 7 October 2013It emphasizes that the so-called Arabic numerals reached Europe through a longer Indian-Arabic chain of transmission.
Mathematical and philosophical ideas of emptiness are compared
📅 7 October 2013The publication explores possible cultural relationships while avoiding the claim that philosophy alone mechanically produced mathematical zero.
Public history makes exclusion itself visible
📅 29 July 2024The authors treat missing names not as accidental gaps but as outcomes of how mathematical history has been written.
Madhava's series challenges familiar calculus stories
📅 29 July 2024Kerala-school work shows that infinite-series techniques developed before the standard European priority narratives.
Women and non-European scholars return to the narrative
📅 29 July 2024The project examines how fame reflects archives, translation, empire and educational canons as well as mathematical achievement.
Publication profiles overlooked mathematicians
📅 29 July 2024The article highlights contributors from China, India, the Arabian Peninsula and other regions who are often absent from popular histories.
The article criticizes colonial historical memory
📅 1 September 2024It argues that British education still underrepresents the Indian foundations of numerical methods used across the modern world.
Aryabhata's trigonometry and astronomy receive public attention
📅 1 September 2024His approximation of pi, sine methods and computational astronomy are placed beside better-known Greek achievements.
Brahmagupta's rules for zero and negative numbers are highlighted
📅 1 September 2024The article presents his 628 treatise as a major turning point in treating zero as a number within arithmetic.
Publication traces India's mathematical influence westward
📅 1 September 2024The 1 September 2024 article follows numerals, zero and mathematical astronomy from India through Baghdad into Europe.