A collaborative project between mathematicians and historians has used Deep Learning algorithms to reconstruct and decode a series of damaged 1,000-year-old Jaina manuscripts from a monastery in Karnataka. The texts, written in Hale-Gannada (Old Kannada), contain advanced mathematical proofs regarding the infinite and sets of numbers.
The decoded scrolls reveal that medieval Jaina scholars had developed foundational concepts of set theory and complex geometric sequences centuries before their formalization in Europe. This research highlights the profound and often overlooked contributions of Jaina philosophy to the history of global mathematics and logic.