The Śulba Sūtras (800–500 BCE), a set of ancient Indian texts on geometry, contain one of the earliest known references to irrational Read More
Innovation & Inventions
“Apastamba’s Practical Geometry: Foundations of Ancient Indian Architectural Mathematics”
Āpastamba and the Foundations of Practical Geometry in Ancient India In the first millennium BCE, Āpastamba, an Indian scholar and Vedic Read More
Innovation & Inventions
“Varahamihira’s Magic Square: An Ancient Indian Contribution to Mathematicsand Perfumery”
The oldest recorded magic square in India appears in Varāhamihira’s encyclopedic work, the Bṛhat-Saṃhitā (c. 550 CE). This early 4×4 Read More
Indian mathematicians made profound contributions to trigonometry, shifting from the ancient Greek system of chords (used by Ptolemy and others) to Read More
The equation ax + by = c, where a,b,ca, b, c are integers and x,yx, y are unknown integers, is an Read More
