Dec 17, 2006 17:35
17 yrs ago
English term
created???
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Science
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Indian maths
The following text doesn't make much sense for me (only in the marked places).
MELVYN BRAGG: Can you put a final word in there, Dennis …
DENNIS ALMEIDA: Yeah, I mean there is definitely the case that they [(41:27 ); created???] a mathematics and [they did …]???(41:28) mathematics came from different epistemological bases. To understand Indian mathematics within the Greek context would require you to actually get into somebody else’s frame set ...
Thanks in advance. Darek
You can download or listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtm...
MELVYN BRAGG: Can you put a final word in there, Dennis …
DENNIS ALMEIDA: Yeah, I mean there is definitely the case that they [(41:27 ); created???] a mathematics and [they did …]???(41:28) mathematics came from different epistemological bases. To understand Indian mathematics within the Greek context would require you to actually get into somebody else’s frame set ...
Thanks in advance. Darek
You can download or listen to the programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtm...
Responses
| 4 +3 | Greek mathematics |
Nedra Rivera Huntington
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| 4 | Greek |
Willem Verkist
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5 mins
Nedra Rivera Huntington
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Greek mathematics
continues "and Indian mathematics"
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Note added at 34 mins (2006-12-17 18:09:51 GMT)
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Yeah, I mean there is definitely the case that THE GREEK MATHEMATICS AND THE INDIAN MATHEMATICS came from different epistemological bases"
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Note added at 34 mins (2006-12-17 18:09:51 GMT)
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Yeah, I mean there is definitely the case that THE GREEK MATHEMATICS AND THE INDIAN MATHEMATICS came from different epistemological bases"
Peer comment(s):
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Nesrin
: Yes, this time I heard it too.
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Thanks, Nesrin.
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Vicky Papaprodromou
55 mins
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Thanks, Vicky.
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Alfa Trans (X)
12 hrs
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Thank you.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you"
37 mins
Greek
I think the schwa after "Greek" put Darek on the wrong foot.
Dennis seems to say: "Greeka mathematics and the Indian mathematics came ..."
Dennis seems to say: "Greeka mathematics and the Indian mathematics came ..."
Discussion
Mathematicians coming from the Greek tradition did mathematics [that] came from different epistemological bases. To understand Indian mathematics within the Greek context would require you to actually get into somebody else’s frame set ...
Do you agree?
Can you clarify what is meant here?