Installment 2

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Dear Fellow MAdhvas:

 

Here is Installment 2.

 

Dear XXXX:

 

I. XXX talks about modern scientific discoveries all being

related to Christianity and he cites Ben Franklin, Thomas

Edison and Albert Einstein as being examples.

 

Firstly, this is the first time I have heard that Albert

Einstein was a Christian! I think most of the world (except

for XXX) thinks he is Jewish.

 

Secondly, there are hundreds of famous scientists, past and

present, who were/are not Christian. The people who built the

Pyramids of Egypt and Mexico (Mayan) were not remotely

acquianted with Christianity, but were excellent engineers.

 

All the major ancient scientists of Greece: Archimedes,

Pythagoras, Euclid etc. were NOT Christians. One the great

fathers of Medicine on whose discoveries modern medicine

improved upon, Avicenna (Ibn SInA) was a Persian Moslem! Look

at Encyc. Brittanica for more info. on these people.

 

 

The most important number so vital to math and computers, i.e.

the zero, was of INDIAN origin! In fact, Ancient Indians have

made the 7 following contibutions to World Mathematics:

 

1. the numeral zero.

2. the place value system of notation

3. the method of performing complex arithmetical

operations--square root, cube root etc.

4. the method of writing fractions

5. the method of calculating the Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)

6. Rules of Three, Five and Inverse Proportion

7. method of calculating Compound interest, installments, profit

and loss etc.

 

Look for the names of Aryabhatta, Bhaskara, Brahmagupta and

Varahamihira in Encycl. Brittanica for more info.

 

Also read:

1. Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus by B.N.Seal

2. Hindu Achievements in the Exact Sciences by B.K.Sircar

3. The Infinite in the Finite by Alistair M. Wilson (Oxford

Univ. Press)

 

Regards,

B.N.Hebbar