British: Arthur Macdonell 1854-1930 & Indian Numerals

#British Arthur Macdonell 1854 – 1930 said:
"In Science, too, the debt of Europe to #India has been considerable. There is, in the first place, the great fact that the Indians invented the numerical figures used all over the world. the influence which the decimal system of reckoning dependent on those figures has had not only on mathematics, but on the progress of civilisation in general, can hardly be over-estimated. During the eighth and ninth centuries the Indians became the teachers in arithmetic and algebra of the Arabs, and through them of the nations of the West. Thus, though we call the latter
science by an Arabic name, it is a gift we owe to India."

British Arthur Macdonell 1854 – 1930.

Macdonell was born at Muzaffarpur in the Tirhut region of the state of Bihar in British India, the son of Charles Alexander Macdonell, of the Indian Army. He was educated at Göttingen University.

Source:
A History of Sanskrit Literature
Arthur Anthony Macdonell · 1909

Online: https://archive.org/download/historyofsanskri00macdrich/historyofsanskri00macdrich.pdf

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