Making Mathematics in India

<strong>School of Physical Sciences</strong> <strong>National Science Day Symposium 2016 --------------------------------------------</strong> Title: <strong>Making Mathematics in India</strong> Speaker:<strong> M.S. Raghunathan</strong>, Distinguished Professor and Platinum Jubilee Chair, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai Date:<strong> March 1, 2016</strong> <strong>Abstract:</strong> India has had a long engagement with mathematics and some very important developments in mathematics came from the subcontinent. However exaggerated claims about ancient India's contributions tend to discredit even our genuine landmark achievements. After a somewhat long gap, creating new mathematics was resumed in India in the late nineteenth century, but the moderns drew upon European mathematics rather than our own tradition for inspiration and guidance. Indian mathematicians have over the last 150 years "made" a lot of excellent mathematics, but we still have a long way to go to sit at the high table of the leading mathematical powers of the world.