Any account of the classical sciences of India must begin with mathematics, for, as the ancient Sanskrit text Vedanga Jyotisa (ca. fourth century B.C.E.) says, Like the crest on the peacock’s head, ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

India has experienced a very long drought in Mathematics research. While several Math luminaries of Indian origin have achieved global recognition, India does not yet carry her proportionate weight in ...

It introduced Indian mathematics to the Arabs ... As William Dalrymple writes in his book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World: “From Baghdad, these ideas spread across ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

Every year, on December 22, India celebrates Mathematics Day ... which is the foundation of many modern algorithms. Throughout history, it has been very difficult to find an accurate approximation ...

Marcus du Sautoy visits an ancient Indian observatory, and explores how Indian mathematicians used trigonometry to make celestial observations. Using examples in right angled triangles ...

National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year in India on December 22. This day honours the birth anniversary of the legendary Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, who made extraordinary ...