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If the Indians invented plane geometry, what was to become of Greek ‘genius’ or of the Greek ‘miracle’?

— Abraham Seidenberg

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I cannot help thinking that it shows battle weariness rather than a considered opinion.

‘Greece and India have a common heritage that cannot have derived from Old-Babylonia, i.e., the Old-Babylonia of about 1700 B.C.’ (Seidenberg 1978)

I think its mathematics [of the common source] was very much like what we see in the Sulbasutras. (Seidenberg 1978)

‘a number of points in Greek geometry are illuminated by the hypothesis that it started from a tradition of peg-and-cord constructions of the kind we find with the Vedic ritualists’ [45].

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