The below videos showcase a small part of their achievements :
+ 64 Kala The Original "Multiple Intelligence Theory??!!" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%C4%81
+ Quantam Indians : https://www.youtube.com/watch?
While not well known in India, Quantam Physics has absorbed a lot of the metaphysics of India.
Read 'The The Tao of Physics' which explains how Heisenberg and many atomic physicists were heavily influenced by Indian Philosophy. Nataraj symbolises the 'dancing universe' where each particle is dancing/vibrating with it's own nada.
Rajiv Malhotra documents how 'Indian Thought' - starting with Swami Vivekananda and continuing to this day - has quietly and surely stormed the gates of science in the West : http://beingdifferentbook.com/media/Vivekananda%27s%20Ideas%20-%20Two%20Revolutions%20in%20Western%20Thought.pdf
Though never explicitly given credit/acknowledged 'Indian Thought' has given the world a lot and has TONS more where it came from. Metaphysics of Indian Thought is being repackaged and passed off as Quantam Physics.
+ BBC documentary History of Indian Mathematics Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?
+ What the Ancients Knew - India BBC documentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?
+ What the Ancient Indians did for us Engineering : https://www.youtube.com/watch?
+ Rajiv Malhotra Infinity Foundation's Research into Indian Scientific and Sanskritic Heritage : http://rajivmalhotra.com/books/buy-infinity-books-india
+ Superb book on Traditional Water Management Techniques of India : http://amzn.com/8182745535 Note: This book is part of the Infinity Foundation (Rajiv Malhotra) series on documenting traditional and ancient science, technology and Sanskriti of India.
+ "Himalayan Traditional Architecture" book : http://amzn.com/812911531X Note: This book is part of the Infinity Foundation (Rajiv Malhotra) series on documenting traditional and ancient science, technology and Sanskriti of India.
+ The Western (limited) acknowledgement of Indian Science : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indian_science_and_technology
+ "Congreve" Rocket mentioned in S.Gurumurthy's talk should have been called "Mysore Rocket" instead : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket
First came across the Rocket fact in the TV Serial 'The Sword of Tipu Sultan'. Till then I'd thought that Chinese had developed the normal rockets but didn't think of applying that to warfare (read this in Tinkle comics). What I didn't know till today that the British 'reverse-engineered' Mysore rockets and modified them to be used in war against Napolean!! Why did I not know this and I'm fairely 'educated' to be aware of this. This is more of a cognitive problem of perception rather than information. When you wear pink glasses the whole world looks pink (in this case Euro-centric).
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Mathematics:
"A later landmark in Indian mathematics was the development of the series expansions for trigonometric functionsarc tangent) by mathematicians of the Kerala School in the fifteenth century CE. Their remarkable work, completed two centuries before the invention of calculus in Europe, provided what is now considered the first example of a power series (apart from geometric series).[12] However, they did not formulate a systematic theory of differentiation and integration, nor is there any (sine, cosine, and direct evidence of their results being transmitted outside Kerala"
Some great info on Mathematics and Sanskrit/Vedas, Coding/Decoding with Error correction techniques used in Chanting:
+ Some interesting info from wikipedia on "Arabic Numerals" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
+ Indian mathematicians achieved even before the Europeans : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.hindupedia.com/en/
http://www.hindupedia.com/en/
http://www.hindupedia.com/en/
http://www.vedah.com/org/
Superb reader friendly article on Brahmgupta : http://www.sanskritimagazine.
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Found this blog by C K Raju (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
a mathematician, after reading an article on Indian science from Bhoomi magazine.
He conducts workshops to show the ease of use of the Indian Calculus. You can find the pdfs for the workshop here: Indian Calculus: http://ckraju.net/aud/
http://ckraju.net/index.html
http://ckraju.net/blog
He also observes that the "delay" of the monsoon is because of the slippage of time (~20 days) as per Gregorian Calendar. Using the Indian Calendar would most probably yield the correct start of monsoon
http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=76
http://www.indianscience.org/
http://ckraju.net/papers/
He's also done research into the ancient maths of India. He says that Indians created Calculus long before the west. They did this for use in predicting the monsoons.
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