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Monday, January 31, 2011

The Value of ‘pi’ (π): Budhayana first calculated it, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable Language for computer software.
Arithmetic was discovered by Indians in about 2nd century BC. Bhaskaracharya's book, Lilavathi, is regarded as the first book on modern arithmetic.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Aryabhatta formulated the rules for finding the area of a triangle which led to the origin of Trigonometry.