Friday, March 12, 2010

VEDIC MATHS --- THE FORGOTTEN PAST-1

वेदिक गणीत










Everyone must be thinking tat wat the heck this "VEDIC MATHEMATICS" is!!!!, most of you dont even know abt the research work done by the Saints and philosophers of the Ancient India.
You must all be knowing abt the "Aristotle" works and "Phytagorain's theorems" or research paper provided by the great "Eienstien","Galileo galilie","Sir Iscass Newton" but how many of you know abt the "RAMANUJAN","BHRAMAGUPTA","BHASKARA-I","BHASKARA-II","Varahamihira","Surya Siddhanta ","Shripati Mishra" and the most important research work done in field of matheatics by "AARYABHATTA". I am sure very few of you know abt the research work done by them.

Prehistory:
Excavations at Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and other sites of the Indus Valley Civilization have uncovered evidence of the use of "practical mathematics". The people of the IVC manufactured bricks whose dimensions were in the proportion 4:2:1, considered favorable for the stability of a brick structure. They used a standardized system of weights based on the ratios: 1/20, 1/10, 1/5, 1/2, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500, with the unit weight equaling approximately 28 grams (and approximately equal to the English ounce or Greek uncia). They mass produced weights in regular geometrical shapes, which included hexahedra, barrels, cones, and cylinders, thereby demonstrating knowledge of basic geometry.
The inhabitants of Indus civilization also tried to standardize measurement of length to a high degree of accuracy. They designed a ruler—the Mohenjo-daro ruler—whose unit of length (approximately 1.32 inches or 3.4 centimetres) was divided into ten equal parts. Bricks manufactured in ancient Mohenjo-daro often had dimensions that were integral multiples of this unit of length.

THE VEDIC PERIOD........

VEDIC MATHEMATICS ,one of the most oldest work in the history of maths started in India before the 400 BCE( the dramatic digit) ,its not only this but before that the whole mathematics was done verbally after the 400BCE the whole vedic mathematics came into existence .Whole of the mathematics was describe verbally before 400 BCE ,so many of the important research were not conserved...........

Describing abt the vedic maths it includes many works like pythagorian theorem, decimal invention, zero.... the biggest invention of all.Many of the geometric theorem came into existence from the analysis of the ancient work provided the base to the modern athematics..

The vedic mathematics was subdivided as per the era's of the time , it divided into two parts
1.Samhitas and Brahmanas
and
2.Śulba Sūtras

by the way not etting too details of the timeline let me introduce you to the extra-ordinary part of the vedic works

The classical mathematics of indian orgin ,important concepts of the decimal numbers were invented in India
The concept of zero came into being withe help of the Sir ARYABHATTA
The ideas of the negative number was originated from the vedic mathematics
Several definition of the cosine and sine were introduced to the modern era using indian classical mathematics......

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