Aryabhata's algorithms are linked to computation

The article presents mathematics and science in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus and Córdoba as central chapters of world history.

Al-Khwarizmi systematized equation-solving while drawing on and extending Indian, Persian and Greek knowledge.

Scientists did not merely preserve older texts; they criticized, recombined and expanded them.

The publication emphasizes that later European science depended on centuries of intercultural circulation.

The 18 February 2010 publication surveys mathematical methods in the Aryabhatiya for a modern technical audience.

Aryabhata's trigonometric work demonstrates an independent and influential approach to numerical astronomy.

It places Indian mathematical innovation within the longer global development of algorithms and number representation.

Published on 31 March 2010, the paper reviews competing explanations of the Old Babylonian number table.

The tablet contains numerical relations among right-triangle sides more than a millennium before Pythagoras.

Historians debate whether the tablet was a teaching aid, reciprocal table or trigonometric object.