I'm sure you're right, Jean Michel, and it's a pity.  I was lucky enough to have several humorous and talented math teachers when I was a schoolboy, and that made me love the subject (though I'm terribly rusty nowadays).

Best,
Dominik

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Professor Dominik Wujastyk
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:
 
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On 25 February 2018 at 00:25, jmdelire <jmdelire@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
Many thanks to Dominik, who is very often the first one (and sometimes the only one) to react on mathematical-astronomical matters. Am I wrong or does the great majority of Indianists belong to the other "culture" (even if I don't believe in that separation) ? Known as "littéraire" in French speaking countries, the self-declared appartenance to that culture very often conceal a terror of maths, that I see at work every day as a math teacher.

Regards,

Dr Jean Michel Delire,
Professor of mathematics, Haute Ecole de Bruxelles-Brabant
Lecturer on Science and Civilization of India and on History of maths, University of Brussels


Le 25.02.2018 02:34, Dominik Wujastyk a écrit :
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Professor Dominik Wujastyk [2]
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics [3]
​,​University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:
 ​sas.ualberta.ca​ [4]
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On 22 February 2018 at 15:55, jmdelire via INDOLOGY
<indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Members of the list,

I am working in Jaipur Man Singh II Museum these days, in order to
see astronomical manuscripts, and I have some difficulties to find a
catalogue of their Arabic and Persian astronomical manuscripts. If
by any chance, one of the member of the list could have an access to
the following article and send me a copy, I would be very grateful.
King, David, "A Handlist of the Arabic and Persian Astronomical
Manuscripts in the Maharaja Man Singh II Library in Jaipur", Journal
for the History of Arabic Science 4 (1980), 81-86

Best regards,

Dr J.M.Delire,
Lecturer on Science and Civilisation of India and on History of
Mathematics, University of Brussels

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