Jameel Al-Khalili: Hindu Numerals Transmitted Islamic World

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[BHARAT-VARSH VISHWAGURU] VEDIC HINDU NUMERALS TRANSMITTED INTO THE ISLAMIC WORLD! Jameel Sadik “Jim” Al-Khalili OBE ~ British theoretical physicist, wrote: "It is not clear when the Indian numerals would have become known to the scholars of Abbāsid Baghdad.
It may have been as early as the time of al-Mansūr, when Brahmagupta's Siddhanta was first translated into Arabic, either directly from Sanskrit or from Persian.Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to the Muslim world. Both wrote books on the subject during al-Ma'mun's reign, and it was their work that was translated
into Latin and transmitted to the West, thus introducing Europeans to the decimal system,
which was known in the Middle Ages only as Arabic numerals." || - Source: Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science (2010 )
by Jim Al-Khalili ISBN-10: 1846141613
ISBN-13: 978-1846141614

|| Abu Yusuf Yaʻqub ibn ʼIshaq as-Sabbah al-Kindi (c. 801–873 AD), known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician.

Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world.

Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe. He was born in Basra and educated in Baghdad. Al-Kindi became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and led him to write hundreds of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects ranging from metaphysics, ethics, logic and psychology, to medicine, pharmacology, mathematics, astronomy, astrology and optics, and further afield to more practical topics like perfumes, swords, jewels, glass, dyes, zoology, tides, mirrors, meteorology and earthquakes.

In the field of mathematics, al-Kindi played an important role in introducing Indian numerals to the Islamic and Christian world. He was a pioneer in cryptanalysis and devised several new methods of breaking ciphers. Using his mathematical and medical expertise, he was able to develop a scale that would allow doctors to quantify the potency of their medication. || www.SherawaliMaa.com