Hi there,
As promised earlier, I am starting a series of posts that will explore the brilliance of ancient Indian scholars. There are many discoveries that have been made by them, but have subsequently been wrongly attributed to western scholars and others. Most of this stuff is already available on various websites, but I'm trying to make a compilation of everything so that this blog can have a consolidated list of Ancient Indian Scientific discoveries.
Let's start with something that nobody escapes during his/her Schooling - Pythagoras Theorem.
I'll state it below graphically just to refresh your memory:
This theorem is used almost by everybody in some point of life. But do you know that it was stated by an Indian priest and Mathematician, Baudhayana, several centuries before the western mathematician?
Referring the Sulbha Sutra, circa 800 BC, we get the following verse:
"A rope stretched along the length of the diagonal produces an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together."
This is the earliest explanation to what we familiarly refer to as the Pythagoras theorem. Though this discovery was made atleast 500 years before Pythagoras, the world still refers to this important mathematical axiom as the "Pythagorean" theorem rather than Baudhayana's theorem.
Baudhayana made several other important discoveries, some of which we use regularly, while others are used in higher level maths. I will list them out in the next post.
Let's start with something that nobody escapes during his/her Schooling - Pythagoras Theorem.
I'll state it below graphically just to refresh your memory:
This theorem is used almost by everybody in some point of life. But do you know that it was stated by an Indian priest and Mathematician, Baudhayana, several centuries before the western mathematician?Referring the Sulbha Sutra, circa 800 BC, we get the following verse:
"A rope stretched along the length of the diagonal produces an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together."
This is the earliest explanation to what we familiarly refer to as the Pythagoras theorem. Though this discovery was made atleast 500 years before Pythagoras, the world still refers to this important mathematical axiom as the "Pythagorean" theorem rather than Baudhayana's theorem.
Baudhayana made several other important discoveries, some of which we use regularly, while others are used in higher level maths. I will list them out in the next post.
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