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In case you missed this: Mathematics in India – From Vedic Period to Modern Times – A Course Coordinated by IIT Bombay COURSE OUTLINE: The Course would cover the development of mathematical ideas and...
Dear All: Below, a set of slides painstakingly created by Archna Sahni on the Hindu contribution to Science and Mathematics..Please do share widely – especially with the younger ones in your family… I need...
Aryabhata discussed the concept of sine in his work by the name of ardha-jya. Literally, it means “half-chord“. For simplicity, people started calling it jya. When Arabic writers translated his works from Sanskrit into Arabic, they...
Micro-post of the week, in which I wonder why the “Popular Book Shop”, located inside the Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum had a loud “Mulberry Bush” nursery rhyme playing in the background, “..This is...
Thanks to Parthasarathy-ji for alerting me to this recent interview of Jeffrey Armstrong. I found it fascinating for the breadth of subjects it covered and the insights it offered. Some excerpts below (emphasis added)....
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