A historian argues that the development of arithmetic and astronomy in medieval India had significant influences on later mathematical work in the Islamic world and, eventually, in Europe.
Which evidence, if true, would the historian most likely cite to support this argument?
- A
Astronomy involves the study of celestial objects.
- B
Trade routes connected India and the Mediterranean for centuries.
- Ccheck_circle
Surviving Arabic translations of Indian mathematical and astronomical works from the 8th and 9th centuries directly inform later treatises that shaped European mathematics.
- D
Medieval India had many regional languages.
Explanation
A provides direct documentary evidence of transmission from Indian to Islamic and then European mathematics. B, C, and D are tangential or general.