India has been a cradle not only to refined civilizational best-practices but also to multitudinous scientific developments. Evidence and knowledge of voluminous literature produced in…
Memory: Not letting it go
Memory is an important aspect of our life. In fact, when we say "my life", we mean a collection of memories of ourselves and the…
How much to eat? What to eat and…
When you are on a diet, every morsel of food is had with guilt. Looks like there are even cheat days in diet plans that…
Uddiṣṭa: Another concise algorithm of Piṅgalācārya
India has been a cradle not only to refined civilizational best-practices but also to multitudinous scientific developments. Evidence and knowledge of voluminous literature produced in…
Naṣṭa: An ingenious algorithm by Piṅgala
By Soorya Narayan India has been a cradle not only to refined civilizational best-practices but also to multitudinous scientific developments. Evidence and knowledge of voluminous…
Combinatorics and Chandas-śāstra-3 The Chandas-śāstra has some very…
India has been a cradle not only to refined civilizational best-practices but also to multitudinous scientific developments. Evidence and knowledge of voluminous literature produced in…
Combinatorics and Chandas-śāstra-2 The Chandas-śāstra has some very…
Origins of Combinatorics in Chandas-śāstra The Chandas-śāstra has some very interesting and intricate connection with mathematics. The word chandas means of prosody, the science of…
Combinatorics and Chandas-śāstra-1 The Chandas-śāstra has some very…
Origins of Combinatorics in Chandas-śāstra The Chandas-śāstra has some very interesting and intricate connection with mathematics. The word chandas means of prosody, the science of…
The Śulba Theorem in Mānava-śulbasūtra In this edition…
In the previous article, we have looked at the lesser known fact that a clear enunciation of the so-called 'Pythagorean' theorem, which must rightly be named…