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Vidyapatha Indian Scientists India's Largest Portal On Some mathematicians claimed that zero divided by zero was zero. Others claimed itto be unity. It was the indian mathematician Bhaskara who proved that it is http://www.vidyapatha.com/scientists/ramanujun.php
Extractions: The arithmetic class was in progress. The teacher was solving questions on division. On the blackboard were drawn three bananas. "We have three bananas, " the teacher said, "and we i have three boys.Can you tell me how many each will get?" A smart boy in the front row replied, "Each will get one." "Right, " the teacher said. "Now, similarly, if 1,000 i bananas are distributed among 1,000 boys, each will get one, Isn't that so?" While the teacher was explaining, a boy sitting in one corner raised his hand and stood up. The teacher stopped and waited for the boy to speak. "Sir, " the boy asked, "if no banana is distributed among no one, will everyone still get one banana?" There was a roar of laughter in the class. What a silly question to ask! "Quiet," the teacher said loudly and thumped the desk. "There's nothing to laugh at. I will just explain what he means to say. For the division of bananas, we divided three by three, saying that each boy will get one banana. Similarly, we divided 1,000 by 1,000 to get one. What he is asking is that if zero banana is divided among zero, will each one get one? The answer is 'no'. Mathematically, each will get an infinite number of bananas!"
FMC: The Indian Perspective FMC The indian Perspective. at the Future of Mathematical Communication (overTelecommunication Media) from the perspective of mathematicians working in http://www.imsc.ernet.in/~kapil/essays/fmc/fmc.html
Extractions: November 25, 1999 Abstract This is the text of a talk to be presented at the conference on the Future of Mathematical Communication at MSRI, Berekeley Dec. 1999. Bandwidth The primary access that most mathematics departments in India have to internet services is through a dial-up link at 38.4 KBps or less. Thus it is of some importance that mathematical content that is intended for this audience should take such bandwidth into account. This means limiting the use of graphics, streaming audio/video and other forms of multimedia . However, I feel this should not affect mathematical communication much for the following reasons. Very few mathematical papers even today use the two dimensional nature of print, let alone three or four dimension provided by high-end graphics and multimedia. By the time these tools acquire the precision required to communicate mathematics we should have a more equitable world order in terms of bandwidth availability. Most mathematicians would like to see the thought/calculation/program that produced a particular graphical result and not be limited to the result itself. Thus it would be far preferable (in mathematical communication) to embed in a document the actual steps of computation rather than the result of the computation alone. This assumes that the receiver has access to computational facilities comparable to those of the sender. (Examples of such use are sending compressed text, use of Java, Perl or other multiplatform languages to send the program). An assumption of reasonable computing power at the finger-tips of the end-user is far more valid today than the assumption that all the end-users have access to similar network bandwidth.
Mathematicians Born In India mathematicians born in India mathematicians' birthplaces are given relative to modernday boundaries. Click on the name below to go to the biography. Click HERE to see a clickable map of India and Pakistan. JOC/EFR/BS January 1998 Famous curves index. mathematicians of the day. Timelines http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BirthplaceMaps/Countries/India.html
Mathematicians Born In India mathematicians born in India. mathematicians' birthplaces are given relativeto modernday boundaries. mathematicians of the day, Timelines. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BirthplaceMaps/Countries/India.html
Extractions: - American Historian 1885-1981 Mathematics represents a high level of abstraction attained by the human mind. In India, mathematics has its roots in Vedic literature which is nearly 4000 years old. Between 1000 B.C. and 1000 A.D. various treatises on mathematics were authored by Indian mathematicians in which were set forth for the first time, the concept of zero, the techniques of algebra and algorithm, square root and cube root. This method of graduated calculation Mechanical Engineering Chapter 2 Shipbuilding and Navigation Chapter 3 Architecture and Civil Engineering You are currently viewing Chapter 4 on Mathematics Chapter 5 Astronomy Chapter 6 Physics and Chemistry Chapter 7 Medical Science Chapter 8 Fine Arts Chapter 9 Sports and Games Chapter 10 Philosophy Chapter 11 Summing Up Glossary Sanskrit-English Glossary Next Book A Search for Our Present in History As in the applied sciences like production technology, architecture and shipbilding, Indians in ancient times also made advances in abstract sciences like Mathematics and Astronomy. It has now been generally accepted that the technique of algebra and the concept of zero originated in India.
Muslim Scientists And Islamic Civilization Extensive information resource on Muslim contributions to science, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy Category Society Religion and Spirituality Islam Science in IslamMUSLIM SCIENTISTS AND ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION Scientific ContributionsBefore European Renaissance, 700 1500 CE. The material linked http://cyberistan.org/islamic/
Extractions: Welcome to the web page on Muslim contribution to humanity and Islamic Civilization. This page is dedicated to those Muslims whose multi-disciplinary contributions sparked the light of learning and productivity and without whom the European Renaissance would not have begun and come to maturity. Their contributions are rarely mentioned in formal education, and if at all mentioned their names are Latinized or changed with the effect of obscuring their identity and origin, and their association with the Islamic Civilization.
Geometry In Ancient And Medieval India/T.A. Sarasvati Amma In their search for a sufficiently good approximation for the value of py Indianmathematicians had discovered the tool of integration, which they used equally http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no14207.htm
Extractions: Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India/T.A. Sarasvati Amma. 2nd revised edition. 1999, 277 p., ISBN 81-208-1344-8. "This book is a geometrical survey of the Samskrit and Prakrt scientific and quasi-scientific literature of India beginning with the Vedic literature and ending with the early part of the 17th century. It deals in detail with the Sulbasutras in the Vedic literature, with the mathematical parts of Jaina Canonical works and of the Hindu Siddhantas and with the contributions to geometry made by the astronomer mathematicians Aryabhata I & II, Sripati, Bhaskara I & II, Sangamagrama Madhava, Paramesvara, Nilakantha, his disciples and a ahost of others. The works of the mathematicians Mahavira, Sridhara and Narayana Pandita and the Bakshali Manuscript have also been studied. "The work seeks to explode the theory that the Indian mathematical genius was predominantly algebraic and computational and that it eschewed proofs and rationales. There was a school in India which delighted to demonstrate even algebraical results geometrically. In their search for a sufficiently good approximation for the value of py Indian mathematicians had discovered the tool of integration, which they used equally effectively for finding the surface area and volume of a sphere and in other fields. This discovery of integration was the sequel of the inextricable blending of geometry and series mathematics." (jacket) Return to History and Politics of India Catalogue: New Additions
