IBM ad 45 years ago (1973).


IBM ad 45 years ago (1973). When the whole world was misled into believing that Algebra came from Arab civilization (Al-Jabr), this was how IBM came up with such fantastic print ads in international newspapers, acknowledging that Algebra had actually originated in India thousands of years ago. What a proud moment it must have been for young Indian engineers across the globe when the world's largest technology company openly refuted false propaganda, and rightfully gave the entire deserving credit to Indians.

From my friend.

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  1. Neera MalhanMarch 4, 2018 at 7:48 AM

    Jai Ho! 👍👍👍👍👍

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  2. Sandeep ChatterjeeMarch 4, 2018 at 8:38 PM

    Lovely Post

    There are lot of books written on bija gaNIta aka algebra which predates arabic proofs.

    See this poetic samskrita Sloka , well known as pearl necklace problem, it is taken from the book "Leelavati" of bhaskaracharya of 13th century, it is just an exercise problem after a lesson on algebra in the book.
    https://goo.gl/images/JJuhe7

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  3. Anantha NarayananMarch 5, 2018 at 12:16 AM

    Thanks for the twitter handle... will take some time to explore

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