The latest program on In Our Time, the BBC Radio 4 series, has a discussion on the role and contribution of India to the history of mathematics. The program can be got here.
While on the topics of Mathematics, check out these links (Photos: Maths in Nature, NatureMaths and Fibonacci and finally Golden Section) which illustrate how some mathematical constructs appear in nature. Everything in nature is supported by some mathematical order. These constructs, among other, always seem to appear in nature underneath anything that we perceive to be beautiful. Beauty too, seems to be mathematical in nature!
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