"‘A comparison of Pythagorean and Vedic mathematics together with some chronological consideration showed that the current view [of Greek influence on Vedic thought] is not tenable. A common source for the Pythagorean and Vedic mathematics is to be sought either in the Vedic mathematics [i.e. the Sulbasutras] or in an older mathematics very much like it.’ (Seidenberg 1978)"
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Seidenberg, A. ‘The Origin of Mathematics’. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 4, (1978): pp. 301-342.The Sulbasutras and the 'Pythagoras Theorem'
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Abraham Seidenberg
Abraham Seidenberg (June 2, 1916 – May 3, 1988) was an American mathematician.
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