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C. K. Raju
Personal blog · ckraju.net/blogmathhistoryphilosophy
C. K. Raju's personal blog at ckraju.net covers math, history and philosophy. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link C. K. Raju's writing on the history of mathematics and science, including a paper on the transmission of calculus from Kerala to Europe and claims that statistics-like sampling theory predates 17th-century Europe.
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I found this paper interesting: https://ckraju.net/Joseph/Manchester-paper.pdf Transmission of the calculus from Kerala to Europe: "...we propose to adopt a legal standard of evidence good enough to hang a person for murder." See document for (1) motivation, (2) opportunity, (3) circumstantial evidence, and (4) documentary evidence.
Comment linking /Joseph/Manchester-paper.pdf
on “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World”Submitted Einstein: from icon to con-man [2003] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEurocentric biases are dominate across various academic disciplines. they either deny the attribution to our culture or call it plain superstitious belief. enlightening article on devastating effect of it by śri lankan biologist: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-of-co... then the onus of proof lies with us to prove suśruta was indeed a great surgeon, whereas we never see Europeans giving eviden…
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on “A Brief History of Surgeons”Submitted Plagiarism by Sir Michael Atiyah (Ex-President of Royal Society) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Statistics is a very young invention. As far as we know, it didn't exist in meaningful form anywhere on Earth until the 1600s. (However, if it existed in the Americas earlier than that, that would explain why it suddenly popped up in Europe in the 1600s...) > It's possible different conceptualisations of probability existed elsewhere. Rudimentary sampling theory 100% predates 17th century Europe: https://ckraju.ne…
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on “Native Americans had dice 12,000 years ago”