I mean I don't know it for a fact but if everyone keeps saying it's the religion of science I think there is truth to it right?
Like didn't alot of math come from the middle east when they were muslims or something?
They worked on it but not everything was originally discovered there. A lot of it were translation works from India. Europe just learned it via Arab hence the confusion. Like the Europeans referred to decimal number system as Arabic number system because they learned it from Arabs, but that number system originates from India.
In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 AD to 1200 AD), important contributions were made by scholars like
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,
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, and
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. The
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in use today
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was first recorded in Indian mathematics. Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of
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as a number,
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,
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, and
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. In addition,
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was further advanced in India, and, in particular, the modern definitions of
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and
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were developed there. ( wiki quote but you can find further links for sources there)
Read it up and you will find that word sine and cosine are not even correct translation.
"The Hindu term for sine in
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"bow-string", the Hindus* originally introduced and usually employed three trigonometric functions jyā, koti-jyā, and utkrama-jyā. The Hindus defined these as functions of an arc of a circle, not of an angle, hence their association with a bow string, and hence the "chord of an arc" for the arc is called "a bow" (dhanu, cāpa). Its synonyms are jivā, siñjini, maurvi, guna, etc. The sine function was later also adapted in the variant
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. Sanskrit jīvā was rendered (adopted) into Arabic as jiba, written jb جب.
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This was then interpreted as the genuine Arabic word jayb, meaning "bosom, fold, bay",
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either by the Arabs or by a mistake of the European translators such as
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, who translated jayb into Latin as sinus.
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Particularly
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proved influential in establishing the term sinus.
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*Note that the word 'Hindu' in that quote doesn't refer to religion but people as in a geographic term.
Why after 12 AD things slowed down in India? Destruction of world's first full university Nalanda which was a major center of studies. In around 1193 CE, Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, a Turkic chieftain decided he needed to make himself a name and easiest way was destruction of the Kafir and their temples and universities..... along with other general massacre the massive library burned ....
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Takshshila the deemed university before it too ended up due to invasions. The origin of Taxila as a city goes back to c. 1000 BCE. ..
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So many records history and knowledge gone because well people just kept invading... one after another. The culture and knowledge couldn't be wiped out completely and we exist and that only tells how much we resisted despite everything to preserve that..
And that takes us back to the original topic: Religious ideologies and tribal wish to impose own culture on others to prevails all over, makes it look like killing teachers and students and burning down library and records, that those men did not need or were not interested in, a good idea. That set back a lot of advancement back for a few centuries.