Re: Waradpande seems to have destroyed PIE already

On Nov 30, 2:28 pm, Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

Can you cite a message-ID, or a Google Groups URL? That would clear
things up nicely.

For example: Brian M. Scott, sci.archaeology, Oct 30 1998,
9:00 am. Read the passage of some ten lines, containing
the statement: "there is no clear evidence of real mathematics
before the Greeks." Brian says in that passage that only the
Greeks understood the importance of proofs. But then one
of the early Greek mathematicians boasted he is better than
everyone else when it comes to proofs, even better than the
rope-stretchers (= Egyptians). This means prior to him the
Egyptians were the best when it came to proofs. We have also
the highest praise of Egyptian geometry by Herodotus and
Aristotle, we have the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a copy
of a lost scroll from around 1 850 BC, and we have the pyramids.
If they stood around Athens, they were the obvious evidence
of the Greek genius in mathematics, because nobody can
possibly build a Great Pyramid without a very good mathematical
knowledge including theoretical insights, but because the
pyramids stand in the Nile Valley, they are irrelevant. All I ever
said in favor of Egyptian mathematics in sci.archaeology was
labeled irrelevant by Brian M. Scott, which is why I called him
Brian "Irrelephant" Scott. He denies that the Egyptians could
have found my number column for the approximation of the
square root of 2, because they were not able of a theoretical
insight. Brian claims the Egyptians used the trial and error
method. I had used the trial and error way back in 1979 and
I soon came accross a pattern that easily led to my first
number column for the approximation of the square root of 2
(which, by the way, is the precise equivalent of the continued
fraction for sqr2). Can you look up those messages on your
own? or must I sift through them and provide some quotes?

This reply qualifies also as reply to Brian, his one word reply
"False" from Nov 30, 10:44 pm here in this thread.
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