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The oldest evidence of counting in India, dating back to the stone age (11,000-8,000 years ago) is the tally marks engraved on a soft white tropical wood cut to look like a dagger or knife. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Regularized decimal system of number words to express quantity was well established in Vedic corpus (Rig Veda). #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
One of the classical language of India, Tamil is unmistakably decimal in its number names. But the numbers were non place value with special symbols for 10, 100 e.t.c #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
A 1700 year old manuscript discusses topics like solution of linear equations with as many as 5 unknowns, solution of quadratic equation, arithmetic & geometric progressions, quadratic indeterminate equations of type ax/c = y, fractions #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Sulba-sutra rules often involve what we would call area-preserving transformations of plane figures, and thus include the earliest known Indian versions of certain geometric formulas and constants. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Ancient texts of Jainism speculated about the concept of infinity and infinitesimals. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
What is known today as Pascal's triangle was discovered much earlier by Pingala (200 BC). #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Earliest epigraphic evidence of zero in India is found in a small Vishnu Temple in the Gwalior fort dating back to 876 CE. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Kolam is form of painting. The mathematical properties of Kolam have been used in the field of computer sciences and computational anthropology. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Some music composers have incorporated the golden ration and Fibonacci numbers into their work. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
If 84 oranges are stacked up in the shape of a pyramid, how many rows does the pyramid have?
#Chitighana #Aryabhatta #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Brahmasphutasiddhanta written by #Brahmagupta in 628CE contains several unprecedented mathematical results. He deduced formulas for computing areas of triangles and quadrilaterals. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Bhaskara II is credited with explaining the previously misunderstood operation of division by zero #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Lilavati meaning "playful", presents mathematics in a playful way. Lilavati was name of Bhaskaracharya's daughter. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics. Image
The Kerala School #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Wow! what a simple explanation for solution on finite and infinite series. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Pie in Indian Mathematics #Heritage Image
Ramanujan was born into dire poverty. He did all his calculations on a slate so that he could erase and reuse, writing down only conclusions in notebooks. Image
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