The Ministry of Culture has announced \u2018DHARA, an Ode to Indian Knowledge System\u2019 as a part of the Science Week <\/span>Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n DHARA comprises a series of lecture demonstrations by eminent scholars across the world to revisit our history and celebrate the achievements of India and the contribution of great scholars, mathematicians, scientists, and leaders to its heritage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The lectures commenced with \u2018Mathematics in India\u2019 which will focus on India\u2019s contribution to Mathematics through the ages.<\/span><\/p>\n Sulbasutras(\u223c 800 BCE): <\/b>It is the oldest extant text. It explicitly states and makes use of the so-called Pythagorean theorem, besides giving various interesting approximations to surds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pingala\u2019s Chandassastra (\u223c 3rd cent. BCE):<\/b> It lays foundations for various combinatorial techniques. (K<\/span>nowledge of combinatorics is necessary to build a solid command of statistics).<\/span><\/p>\n Aryabhata (c. 499 CE): <\/b>He described algorithms for extracting square root and cube root based on the decimal place-value system. He also presented the differential equation of the sine function in its finite-difference form and a method for solving the linear indeterminate equation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Brahmagupta(c. 628):<\/b> He discussed the arithmetic operations with zero. He also introduced the profound \u2018bhavana\u2019 law of composition for solving quadratic indeterminate equations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Madhava (c. 1340\u20131420):<\/b> He pioneered the Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics. He also discovered the infinite series for pi (\u03c0)\u2014the so-called Gregory-Leibniz series)\u2014and other trigonometric functions.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Ministry of Culture organized the first event of the series Dhara \u2013 an Ode to Indian Knowledge System<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 25th February 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Culture has announced \u2018DHARA, an Ode to Indian Knowledge System\u2019 as a part of the Science Week Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate. What is the purpose of DHARA? DHARA comprises a series of lecture demonstrations by eminent scholars across the world to revisit our history and celebrate the achievements of… Continue reading Ministry of Culture organized the first event of the series Dhara \u2013 an Ode to Indian Knowledge System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-171105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704955584},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the purpose of DHARA?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Contributions of Indian Mathematicians<\/b><\/h5>\n