"[…] should it […] boil down to the fact that individual parts of the Sulbasutras are relatively modern interpolations?"
— Moritz Cantor

January 1, 1970

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19th-century German mathematiciansUniversity of Göttingen alumniGerman historians of mathematics20th-century German mathematiciansHeidelberg University alumni
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Cantor, Moritz. Über die älteste indische Mathematik, Archiv der Mathematik und Physik, Pg 70, 1905.in The Sulbasutras and the 'Pythagoras Theorem'