Any account of the classical sciences of India must begin with mathematics, for, as the ancient Sanskrit text Vedanga Jyotisa (ca. fourth century B.C.E.) says, Like the crest on the peacock’s head, ...

Indian mathematicians and scientists made impressive innovations, especially in the first millennium C.E. Information from this unit could be used in math classes, ancient history classes, and those ...

Picture a time long before the digital age, when knowledge passed through vibrant discussions, scholarly debates, and profound teachings. The ancient universities of India were intellectual ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

The famous Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata ... As William Dalrymple writes in his book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World: “From Baghdad, these ideas spread ...

and astronomer- mathematicians like Aryabhata (476-550 ... connecting little-known facts to known ones to bring out how ancient India was as great and as dynamic a civilisation as China was ...

Marcus du Sautoy visits an ancient Indian observatory, and explores how Indian mathematicians used trigonometry to make celestial observations. Using examples in right angled triangles ...