Madhava: The Kerala Genius who laid foundation of Calculus 250 years before Newton

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What if everything you learned about the invention of calculus was wrong? We're taught that Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz were the fathers of this revolutionary field. But the history books missed a crucial chapter. Join us as we travel back to 14th-century India, to the lush landscape of Kerala, to uncover the story of Madhava of Sangamagrama—the forgotten genius of mathematics. 250 years before Newton, Madhava and his disciples at the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics were already working with the foundational ideas of calculus.