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  2. Baudhayana sutras - Wikipedia

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    The Baudhāyana sūtras (Sanskrit: बौधायन सूत्रस्) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, mathematics and is one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE.

  3. Shulba Sutras - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit. pp. 37– 62. Bryant, Edwin (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195137774. Cooke, Roger (2005) [First published 1997]. The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-471-44459-6. Datta, Bibhutibhushan ...

  4. Vedic Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Indian Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha and first published in 1965. It contains a list of mathematical techniques which were falsely claimed to contain advanced mathematical knowledge. [ 1 ]

  5. Bharati Krishna Tirtha - Wikipedia

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    Bharatikrishna's book, Vedic Mathematics, is a list of sixteen terse sūtras, or "aphorisms", discussing strategies for mental calculation. Bharatikrishna claimed that he found the sūtras after years of studying the Vedas , a set of sacred ancient Hindu scriptures.

  6. Govardhan Math - Wikipedia

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    It is called the Govardhanatha Math, and has sub-location called the Shankarananda Math. Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha, who was then the leader at the Dwarka Math, assumed the leadership position at the Govardhan Math in 1925; Shankara Purushottama Tirtha supervised the Math on his behalf while he visited the Self Realization Fellowship in the ...

  7. Katapayadi system - Wikipedia

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    In some astronomical texts popular in Kerala planetary positions were encoded in the Kaṭapayādi system. The first such work is considered to be the Chandra-vakyani of Vararuci, who is traditionally assigned to the fourth century CE. Therefore, sometime in the early first millennium is a reasonable estimate for the origin of the Kaṭapayādi ...

  8. Mahāvīra (mathematician) - Wikipedia

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    This follows the use of unit fractions in Indian mathematics in the Vedic period, and the Śulba Sūtras' giving an approximation of √ 2 equivalent to + +. [ 14 ] In the Gaṇita-sāra-saṅgraha (GSS), the second section of the chapter on arithmetic is named kalā-savarṇa-vyavahāra (lit. "the operation of the reduction of fractions").

  9. Līlāvatī - Wikipedia

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    Līlāvatī is a treatise by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, [1] alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya. [2] A problem from the Lilavati by Bhaskaracharya. Written in the 12th century.