Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote: > >It might just be another way of doing things, >inadequately recognised by (mostly) Western-shaped >science and maths. >
Science and mathematics are universal. There is no western-shaped and eastern-shaped science or mathematics. Narlikar, Dani and many other scholars who have spoken out against this fraud, are highly competent Indian mathematicians. They want our children to know the truth. They do not and cannot have a western bias on objective knowledge. Through their books and writings they have given credit where credit is genuinely due, for example to the great Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan and to the hallowed mathematical tradition of Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Madhava, etc. We have to learn to recognize genuine accomplishments, and separate them fraud, quackery and vacuous nonsense. Cheers, Santosh Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote: > >There has been a lot of debate over this issue, >which can be found by googling for "Vedic Maths >controversy". I would not be so eager to write it off, >knowing that a lot of traditional knowledge simply >gets dismissed in the face of "Universal" knowledge. >Systems of medicine like Ayurveda and Homeopathy are >similarly devalued and under-appreciated. > > Could some mathematician on this list give us his > view: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Maths > > FN >