Nagpur: Curiosity about ancient maths drew math lovers from around the city to a presentation on 'Pracheen aur arvacheen ganit', organized by Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN), Nagpur centre at the Kavi Kulguru Kalidas hall of Persistent Systems, IT Park, on Saturday.
Beginning with the recital of shlokas from the book 'Lilavati', penned by the great mathematician Bhaskaracharya, by two girls from School of Scholars, the presentation was divided into four periods — ancient, classical, medieval and modern.
Informing about the ancient period, Bhavana Khube, supervisor of Bharti Krishna Vidya Vihar, spoke at length about significant contribution of mathematicians from the prehistoric era such as Baudhayana, Pingala and Katyayana in the subject. She said, "Contribution of Indian math scholars is exceptional and noteworthy. The Pythagoras theorem, considered to be propounded by Greek mathematician, was proved around 500 years before by Baudhayana so it won't be wrong to call it as Baudhayana theorem." The audience was astonished to learn that Pingala from 500BC is the proponent of the binary system on which all our modern day digital gadgets work.
Further, speaking about the classical period, Geeta Ghormade, head of resource centre of Meghe Group, told that Bhaskaracharya wrote 'Lilavati' and named it after his daughter. The book includes various mathematical concepts of geometry, trigonometry, permutation and others in the form of poetry. "The book not only is poetic but also very close to nature," she said.
Khube and Ghormade also conveyed the influence of other great math experts from the medieval and modern eras such as Aryabhata who is credited with discovering zero, Lallacharya, Narayana Pandit, Madhavan, DR Kaprekar, the math marvel Ramanujan, Shriram Abhyankar, CR Rao and so on.
Ghormade concluded the presentation session by quoting Albert Einstein saying, "We owe a lot to the Indians who taught us how to count without which no significant scientific discovery could have been made" which filled the audience with a sense of pride.
While there were a large number of academicians present at the event, the decent amount of youngsters clearly depicted that the spark of the subject isn't entirely lost amongst the current generation.
"The objective of the event was to bring forth the sweetness in this subject which people usually dread. Also, we wish to bring to the people's attention how the roots of mathematics lies in our ancient Vedas," told Ghormade to TOI.
Anant Vyavhare conceptualized the event which was also graced by various academicians from the city in addition to Maya Kondalwadikar, treasurer of SSUN.
Beginning with the recital of shlokas from the book 'Lilavati', penned by the great mathematician Bhaskaracharya, by two girls from School of Scholars, the presentation was divided into four periods — ancient, classical, medieval and modern.
Informing about the ancient period, Bhavana Khube, supervisor of Bharti Krishna Vidya Vihar, spoke at length about significant contribution of mathematicians from the prehistoric era such as Baudhayana, Pingala and Katyayana in the subject. She said, "Contribution of Indian math scholars is exceptional and noteworthy. The Pythagoras theorem, considered to be propounded by Greek mathematician, was proved around 500 years before by Baudhayana so it won't be wrong to call it as Baudhayana theorem." The audience was astonished to learn that Pingala from 500BC is the proponent of the binary system on which all our modern day digital gadgets work.
Further, speaking about the classical period, Geeta Ghormade, head of resource centre of Meghe Group, told that Bhaskaracharya wrote 'Lilavati' and named it after his daughter. The book includes various mathematical concepts of geometry, trigonometry, permutation and others in the form of poetry. "The book not only is poetic but also very close to nature," she said.
Khube and Ghormade also conveyed the influence of other great math experts from the medieval and modern eras such as Aryabhata who is credited with discovering zero, Lallacharya, Narayana Pandit, Madhavan, DR Kaprekar, the math marvel Ramanujan, Shriram Abhyankar, CR Rao and so on.
Ghormade concluded the presentation session by quoting Albert Einstein saying, "We owe a lot to the Indians who taught us how to count without which no significant scientific discovery could have been made" which filled the audience with a sense of pride.
While there were a large number of academicians present at the event, the decent amount of youngsters clearly depicted that the spark of the subject isn't entirely lost amongst the current generation.
"The objective of the event was to bring forth the sweetness in this subject which people usually dread. Also, we wish to bring to the people's attention how the roots of mathematics lies in our ancient Vedas," told Ghormade to TOI.
Anant Vyavhare conceptualized the event which was also graced by various academicians from the city in addition to Maya Kondalwadikar, treasurer of SSUN.
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