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…
Pythagorean Theorem – a Misnomer In the Vedic…
Problem-solving in constructions In the Vedic Era, we have seen that the elaborate construction of larger altars require conforming to certain shapes and stringent prescriptions…
the Sulbasutras-2 In this edition we shall look…
Context of Development In Indian civilization, we saw that Geometry originated in a very remote age in connection with the construction of the fire altars…
The Sulbasutras-1 In this edition we shall look…
Overview of Śulbasūtras The class of texts called Śulbasūtras form a part of Kalpa, which is one of the Vedāṅgas. The term Vedāṅga is used…