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| Culture Course |
MATHEMATICS IN INDIA |
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| THE Vedas are
the earliest literature of India. They are over five thousand years old. We find in the Vedas the beginnings of mathematics in India. Our Vedic rishis knew many branches of mathematics like arithmetic, geometry, algebra and astronomy. The rishis of the Vedic times had to perform yagas. These were done on a platform or Vedi which was a rectangle, circle, a half-circle, etc. They had framed rules for drawing these figures. These rules were called sulba-sutras. Rishi Baudhayana wrote the best and biggest of them. There are even rules for converting one geometrical figure into another, like a circle into a square. The science of calculation was called ganita; algbera, bija ganita and geometry, kshetra ganita. |
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