[nukkad] Vedic maths - 1

["Hemendra Bhanushali" <>]

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Hi Friends,
   As we r already talking about Vedic maths, I will like to share some
experts of a Book called "DrutGanit"(Speed mathematics) by Mr. Shyam
Marathe.... The book is in Marathi discussing the techniques of doing
mathematical operation of big numbers very quickly using the techniques
present in "Vedas" .... This document which I will be sending in parts is
created by friend Mr. Rohit naringrekar.
   So friends enjoy this info...please feel free to ask if u have any
queries.....


Enjoy!
Hemendra
The one who is enjoying.

Mathematics is the queen of subjects. Rightly so, then, Vedic Mathematics is
the glowing crown that adorns its proud forehead.
Very few of the masses today are aware today, of Vedic mathematics, the
magnanimity of its profound implications, and of its origins which guided
the rest of the world towards purer and more intricate branches of
mathematics and which, laid the foundations for number theory and
arithmetic, the teeny-weeny part of which we are taught during our
alma-mater days with hardly any reference made to its rightful owners – our
very own ancestors – who pursued the study of mathematics with no less
finesse than that of a fine art.
A well-known fact it is, as every one knows now, for he/she has seen
himself/herself or his friend, being answered by his teacher, during the
primary years of his education, in response to his/her query full of
childish criticism “What has India given to Mathematics”, that the numeral 0
was indeed the creation of Indian mathematicians.
Introduction of zero brought about a new revolution into the world of
mathematics. It was zero that gave rise to the idea of representing numbers
using base 10, as it is commonly used today. And it is zero because of which
you are able to read this article. But why? How would a computer work
without zeros and ones!!! So that’s the zero there, right!

Though the Arabs are given the credit of taking mathematics into broader
frontiers, they had begun their work with the help of Indian manuscripts.
The story goes something like this.

It was in 773 that the Arabs were able to set their eyes on the astounding
developments of numerical methods Indians used when one of the Indian
palmist and fortune-teller happened to visit the Arabian lands. So impressed
were the Arab mathematicians with Indian inventions that the Arab
mathematician Muhammed-Ibna-Musa-Abu-Jafar-Al-Khwarizmi himself came to
India to study Indian mathematics. After stating here for some time after
learning the subjects to his satisfaction, he wrote his manuscript “Algebra
’–b-e-Mukabla”. This is how ‘Algebra’ was born.
His works, which were nothing but a translation of his Indian studies, left
the European mathematicians spell-bound, especially by the use of base 10 to
represent numbers. The idea of representing numbers by base 10, is thus,
originally Indian.
The trend then caught on. From Arabs to Greeks, from Greece to Spain and
from Spain to Europe. Europeans however, initially reluctant to use base 10
to represent numbers, inevitably began to use it in 1202 (during the time of
Bhaskaracharya). Though the mathematical works went on improving as it
changed hands, the world availed the first systematically documented use of
base 10 only in Bhaskaracharya’s manuscript “Lilavati”. 4th century
mathematician Diaphantus, who is also known as ‘Father of Arithmetic’, has
his works in his book ‘Arithmetica’ coinciding closely with the Indian
manuscripts of earlier age.
These are but a few evidences that arithmetic and basic mathematics that has
evolved today in various forms, is but the creation of those great olden
Indian minds.
In this article, we take a glimpse of the very fantastic inventions of Vedic
mathematics in the field of number theory and arithmetic. Though cited here
are examples of the methods described in Vedas , Vedic mathematics has its
frontiers expanding into many more diverse areas and concepts like
astrology, astronomy, geometry, trigonometry, to name a few. The examples
cited here would be useful in performing calculations that you may be coming
across everyday. This article would be of course, a welcome change to those
who complain that they hardly get time to stretch their legs during those
interminably tightly timed aptitude tests!
Bon-Voyage! Here we go!


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