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 ...

The nature of mathematics is elucidated by one mathematician's account of how a memory word used by drummers in ancient India led him to the classic problem of the traveling salesman's route ...

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 ...

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 ...

Identify the great accomplishments made in mathematics and science during the Gupta era. Indian scientists and mathematicians are credited with the creation of important concepts that played ...

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.

National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year in India on December 22. This day honours the birth anniversary of the legendary Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, who made extraordinary ...