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Do modern Pakistani textbooks teach anything about Indus valley/ancient mathematicians of the land?

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Was watching a lecture on youtube from MIT about Linear recurrences(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNt5Ll6hGqo&list=PL3o9D4Dl2FJ8zkoLxaO4aKlq2JsKsz365&index=16) and professor credited Panini to have invented the famous Fibonacci series in 200BC, some 2000 years before Europeans. Found out that Panini was born in modern day pakistan.

I was never taught about him in Indian textbooks as a kid and discovered hi m later online when reading European textbooks on Computer Science.
How about Pakistan is something taught about such people there.

Pāṇini (fl. 6th century BCE[1][2]) (Sanskrit: पाणिनि, IPA: [pɑːɳin̪i]; a patronymic meaning "descendant of Paṇi"), or Panini, was a Sanskrit grammarian from ancient India.[3] He was born in Pushkalavati, Gandhara, in the modern-day Charsadda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[1][2]
 
Of course the hell? I took multiple exams on it
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Was watching a lecture on youtube from MIT about Linear recurrences(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNt5Ll6hGqo&list=PL3o9D4Dl2FJ8zkoLxaO4aKlq2JsKsz365&index=16) and professor credited Panini to have invented the famous Fibonacci series in 200BC, some 2000 years before Europeans. Found out that Panini was born in modern day pakistan.

I was never taught about him in Indian textbooks as a kid and discovered hi m later online when reading European textbooks on Computer Science.
How about Pakistan is something taught about such people there.

Pāṇini (fl. 6th century BCE[1][2]) (Sanskrit: पाणिनि, IPA: [pɑːɳin̪i]; a patronymic meaning "descendant of Paṇi"), or Panini, was a Sanskrit grammarian from ancient India.[3] He was born in Pushkalavati, Gandhara, in the modern-day Charsadda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[1][2]

In the book Fibonacci, he himself has written that he had met with indian merchants who introduced him to indian mathematics at his time. In fact there is a reference of pingala in the book.
He calls it as indian series rather than Fibonacci series. Fibonacci also occurs in nature.

Coming to history we are ingrained by the white man inventions due to rule that happened later. And sadly the golden and ancient history was truly lost with subsequent invasions by Mughals. Add to it the politicians of last few decades who did not make any attempts to revive it.
 
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