Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient India: The Insights of Brahmagupta and Bhฤskara Acฤrya

Centuries before Galileo and Newton some Indian scholars such as Brahmagupta and Bhฤskara Acฤrya, heirs of the millenary knowledge of the Vedas,ย they had already theorized the heliocentric model and the force of gravity; and again, calculus, second degree equations and the number zero.