"However, it is not unlikely that the Arabs, who received from the Indians the numeral figures (which the Greeks knew not), did from them also receive the use of them, and many profound speculations concerning them, which neither Latins nor Greeks know, till that now of late we have learned them from thence. From the Indians also they might learn their algebra, rather than from Diophantus."
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John Wallis, in 1685 quoted in :Heeffer, Albrecht. ‘The Reception of Ancient Indian Mathematics by Western Historians’. In Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics, edited by B. S. Yadav and Man Mohan, pp. 135-152. Birkhäuser, 2011. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
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