MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE OF INDIA

Kamna Venugopal

VIII.A

The layman’s knowledge of Indian mathematics stays only on two Indian contributions to mathematics. Many also claim that these ‘two achievements’ that is the discovery of zero and the discovery of Pythagoras theorem are great. The most unfortunate reality is that we have not sustained our claims by submitting proofs for even these two. If we search through the ancient Indian Sanskrit literature, hundreds and thousands of modern scientific information bits, on mathematics written during the Vedic period and afterwards can be seen. Not merely zero and Pythagoras theorem. Bringing all of them to a light is a Herculean task. Demonstrating with few examples on a variety of subject areas need not be very difficult. But the important and crucial requirement to claim Indian contributions is that one has to search almost all important texts.

Shakuntala Devi

 

P.MEGHANA DAS

VIII-A

Shakuntala Devi is an Indian calculating prodigy. Shakuntala was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India was well known Human Computer - [Indian legend]. Her father worked in a "Brahmin circus" as a trapeze and tightrope

performer, and later as a lion tamer and a human cannonball. Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she was three. They report she "beat" them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand. By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore. At the age of eight she had success at Annamalai University by doing the same. In 2006 she released a new book called In the Wonderland of Numbers with Orient Paperbacks which talks about a girl Neha and her fascination for numbers. Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India .Her calculating gifts

First demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she was three. They report she "beat" them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand. Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, India to an orthodox priestly Brahmin family. At the age of three she manifested an extraordinary love for numbers and by the time she was five years old, Shakuntala became an expert in complex mental Arithmetic. With a divine skill in numbers from the age of three, she has been stunning the whole world with her uncanny skill in computing the most intricate problems mentally, even quicker than the highly sophisticated computers in the world.