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This article would be a lot more meaningful if it included some specifics. It is impossible for me or anyone else to have even a remote clue of the actual significance of the mathematics vaguely hinted at here. I would be very interested to hear about what was actually done There were a great many infinite series (and products) that added up to (or multiplied out to) pi and to other numbers as well. I believe that many of them predate Newton considerably, although I would have to look this up.

It appears obvious that the author of this post believes that European racism is behind the fact that non-European scientitst and mathiematicians are not credited with their discoveries. It is not the only factor. In mathematics, credit is often given to the person whose work was followed up, or who took a theorem and used it in a particularly fruitful way. Unfair to the originator no doubt, but common. This unenviable fate has happened to numerous European as well as non-European ones. The Indians themselves clearly never developed this material as was done later in Europe or I expect we would have known about it. They also wrote in a language unlikely to be known in Europe. A final comment is that it is possible that the material was too far ahead of times from a European perspective to have been understood there.