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The first Indian scholar who treated Mathematics as a distinct subject was
Asked in APPSC Gazated Posts 2012 · Topic: Gupta and Post-Gupta Period (Gupta Science and Technology: Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Metallurgy)
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