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In response to message posted by pseudoerasmus:

pseudoerasmus : It's very nice to know that you indeed come out with name the Apasthamba Sutra..well almost got it. The Baudhayana Sulba Sutra i.e the Treatise on Geometry by Baudhayana predates that of Pythagoras where he not only proves it but also discusses the square root. This
fact is now well known in western academic circles
for example : David Henderson, Dept. of Mathematics, Cornell University, NY. Read his paper on the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra...also read A. Seidenberg, The Ritual Origin of Geometry.

Dr Henderson you should note is a professor of Mathematics at Cornell Univ. His paper gives a mathematical analysis of the sutras.

I hope this information would encourage you to find more about the three other points you mentioned.

Please do not make statements without going deep into the genesis of the original idea .

of course even I thought that Pythagoras was the first person in the world to prove it. In fact I even call it the Pythagoras theorem..but then never rejected the counter-claim nor accepted it at first but scanned the breadth and he length of the topic without being biased (I myself was a teacher in the Math Dept. in a Univ. in US ). I urge you to do the same.

Good Luck and take care.

- rshrc

-- posted by rshrc