The K.V. Sarma Research Foundation has an excellent collection, which includes ancient texts and commentaries
Writing about the significance of the Hindu numeral
system, Keith Devlin of Stanford University and a Fellow of the American
Mathematical Society, points out that it is much easier to read symbolic
expressions and know what a number means, than to read a description in words.
He quotes a study conducted by experimental psychologists, where brain lesions
were found to have destroyed number and language capacities. “This demonstrated
that our brains store numbers along with — and arguably through — symbols that
represent them. Our sense of numbers depends on symbols. The modern symbolic
notation for numbers is the world’s only truly universal language,” he says.
And it was India that gave the world this universal language.
Regards
Mr. Pralhad Jadhav
Master of Library &
Information Science (NET Qualified)
Senior Manager @ Knowledge
Repository
Khaitan & Co
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