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Sitabhra Sinha’s buffoon public statements on real numbers and “Euclid”
My VIF lecture (pic1) was on “Practical ganita vs religious mathematics”, I explained the difference between √2 in Indian ganita (pic2), and √2 in present-day formal mathematics (pic3). Briefly, early Indian tradition (sulba sutra) saw √2 as something empirical (“diagonal of unit square”) but recognized that an exact value for Read more…