The recently released Class 7 mathematics textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) features several references to India’s ancient contributions to the field. It states that many key mathematical concepts, including algebra, were first developed by Indian mathematicians, according to a report by The Indian Express.

This is the second part of NCERT’s Ganita Prakash textbook for Class 7. The first part, released earlier this year, also highlighted India’s mathematical heritage. The newly released Part 2 draws from Sanskrit texts, includes problems inspired by the work of ancient Indian scholars, and even discusses an early Indian text on geometry.

One chapter in the book talks about integers, which are positive and negative numbers. It mentions the 7th-c

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