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- From: mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu)
- Subject: Re: VEDIC MATHEMATICS
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- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 15:32:13 GMT
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- In article <C0ywC2.A0C@geog.utoronto.ca> GSR Gopal <gopal@geog.utoronto.ca> writes:
- >mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >>The book Vedic Mathematics is a big joke. The author had simply taken
- >>the stuff he learned from his SLSC class and named it Vedic Mathematics.
- >>There is not a singel reference to the original Vedic slokas or other
- >>ancient texts.
- >
- >>M Vishnu
- > there are many small books (including some in vernacular languages
- > (telugu etc) with the title "vedic mathematics". probably you are
- > referring to the one such book.
- >
- > my faint memory of the book by shankaracharya was that the book contains
- > a lot of details covering varied mathematical derivations possible from
- > the vedic texts ( further, slokas are post-vedic verse form and you cant
- > expect them in vedic texts). the book contained progressions, calculus
- > etx.
- >
- > i am copying the details from McGill library info sys
- >
- > AUTHOR: Bharati Krishna Tirtha, Swami, 1884-1960.
- > TITLE: Vedic mathematics, or, Sixteen simple mathematical formulae
- > from the Vedas (for one-line answers to all mathematical
- > problems)
- > PUBLISHED: Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, <1971>
- > LC SUBJECTS: (ENTER LO FOR MORE SUBJECTS)
- > Mathematics, Hindu
- > LOCATION: 1. Religious Studies CALL NUMBERQA27 I4S28 1988
- >
- >
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- This is precisely the book I am talking about. Read it for yourself
- and see. Do not forget to read the preface; there is a hint.
-
- Meenan Vishnu
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