An Analysis of Cross�Cultural Influences on the Development of Modern Mathematics

Shivani Agrawal

Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2016

An Analysis of Cross�Cultural Influences on the Development of Modern Mathematics

Shivani Agrawal

Abstract :

 Present day Mathematics as it is understood and studied got its formal design only during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Western World, but then as it is known, no knowledge develops in vacuum. The history of Mathematics is the history of mathematical interests and inventions in the Asian countries and finally taking the formal shape in the Western World. Not to say then, there has been strong role of cross cultural influences on the Development of Mathematics, which has been throughout neglected in the Western World and is propagated as if all the Mathematical Concepts have found their development in the Western World only. There appears to be gross non acceptance of contribution of the countries and regions outside the western world. This fallacy is now being corrected by the Mathematicians both in the Western World as also in the non–Western World.