Re: maize in ancient India: transpacific links (cont.)
Yuri Kuchinsky (bg364@torfree.net)
Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:52:44 GMT
Milo Gardner (gardnerm@gaia.ecs.csus.edu) wrote:
: Thank you for re-citing David Kelley, a non-mathematician. I am
: aware of David Kelley's work and am very displeased with Mayanists
: like him not looking into the basis for Mesoamericans NOT needing
: fractions.
: Linguists like David Kelley have trouble grasping the fact that
: Mayans used remainders, modular arithmetic, rather than fractions.
...
[Yuri:] : > I have already mentioned that the work of David H. Kelley
(DECIPHERING THE : > MAYAN SCRIPT, 1976) was very important in
establishing the connections : > between the Mayan and the Indian
zodiacs/calendars/day names. Another big : > name is Paul Kirchhoff.
: Deciphering script is not deciphering ancient mathematics such as the
: basis from which Mayans handled numbers less than one (1)!
I have cited David Kelley because his work demonstrates the connections
between the Mayan and the Indian astronomical and calendrical systems.
That's why it's relevant. The mathematical connections are something else.
Best,
Yuri.
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