Vedic Science & History: Ancient India's Contributions to the Modern World by Swami B.B. Vishnu

Author:Swami B.B. Vishnu [B.B. Vishnu, Swami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788192660134
Publisher: Gosai Publishers
Published: 2018-01-01T18:30:00+00:00

Calculations for the precise building of ritual altars were important, for obvious reasons. Arithmetical principles such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, cubes, squares and roots were developed during these periods, they are referred to in the Brihat Vishnu Purana (1000 BCE). Geometric principles are found in the Shulba Sutras, authored by Baudhayana (800 BCE) and Apasthamba (600 BCE).

In 510 CE, the Indian mathematician Aryabhata explicitly described schemes for various arithmetic operations, even including square roots and cube roots — schemes likely known in India earlier than this date. Aryabhata’s actual algorithm for computing square roots is described in greater detail in a 628 CE manuscript by a faithful disciple named Bhaskara I. Additionally, Aryabhata gave a decimal value of pi = 3.1416. Ifrah further confirms that Aryabhata’s works would have been impossible without the usage of zero and the place-value system.[68]

One of India’s greatest gifts to the world is in the field of mathematics. The adoption of zero and the decimal place-value

system from India unbarred the gates of the mind to rapid progress in arithmetic and algebra.

India pioneered almost every field of mathematics, from the numeral system and arithmetical principles of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to the invention of zero and the notion of infinity, to the power and place value and decimal systems, geometry and many of the theorems traditionally attributed and named after the Greeks or other Europeans.

Algebra, trigonometry and even significant parts of calculus, were all developed by Indians to a significant degree of finesse, long before any country or individual that the Europeans have credited.

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