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Indian Mathematical Controversies and Debates
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Which Indian mathematician was involved in a controversy over the discovery of the calculus?
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Madhava of Sangamagrama
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Madhava of Sangamagrama is credited with developing a series expansion for the sine function, which is considered a precursor to the modern calculus. However, there is a debate over whether he actually discovered the calculus before Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.