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 13 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The REKHAGANITA or Geometry in Sanskrit
Composed by Samrad Jagannatha
Edited by Kamalasankara Premasankara Trivedi
Published by Government Central Book Depot, Bombay - 1901

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 13 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The ARYABHATIYA of Aryabhata
An ancient Indian work on Mathematics and Astronomy
Translated with notes by Walter Eugene Clark
Professor of Sanskrit in Harvard University
Published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago - 1930

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 12 Jan 2015 Article/Essay
Interview:
"Indian mathematics is practical whereas the European is metaphysical"

C K Raju has been arguing passionately through several lectures and books about the uniqueness of ancient Indian mathematics and how it influenced the rest of the world. He says what is taught as standard modern ma... Read More
 12 Jan 2015 New Books
New Book:
Is Science Western in Origin?
By C.K. Raju
Published by Multiversity and Citizens International, Penang - 2009

On stock Western history, science originated among the Greeks, and then developed in post-renaissance Europe. This story was fabricated in three phases.

First, during the Cr... Read More
 7 Jan 2015 Article/Essay
Scientific Paper:
Corrosion resistance of the Dhar Iron Pillar
By R. Balasubramaniam and A.V. Ramesh Kumar
Kanpur - 2003

Introduction:
The attention of scientists and archaeometallurgists has not been focused significantly on the Dhar iron pillar, although this pillar, in its original conditio... Read More
 7 Jan 2015 Article/Essay
Article:
Science meet didn’t hear: 40 years ago, IISc debunked flying claims
By T.A.Johnson
The Indian Express - 6 January,2015

At the Indian Science Congress on Sunday, at a special session called “Vedic Science through Sanskrit’’, a former pilot, Captain Anand J Bodas, claimed that aircraft t... Read More
 6 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Bhaskara's BIJA GANITA or The Algebra of the Hindus
By Edward Strachey
Of The East India Company's Bengal Civil Service
Published by Black, Parry and Co., Leadenhall Street, London - 1813

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 6 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Vaimanika Shastra
By Pandit Subbaraya Shastry
Translated by G.R.Josyer
Printed at The Coronation Press, Mysore - 1973

The Vaimānika Shāstra ( वैमानिक शास्त्र, lit. "shastra on the topic of Vimanas"; sometimes also rendered Vimanika, Vymanika) is an early 20th century Sanskrit ... Read More
 6 Jan 2015 Article/Essay
Scientific opinion:
A critical study of the work - VYMANIKA SHASTRA
By H.S.Mukunda, S.M.Deshpande, H.R.Nagendra, A.Prabhu and S.P.Govindaraju
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 1974

A study by aeronautical and mechanical engineering researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore... Read More
 5 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of Hindu Mathematics - A Source Book
By Bibhuthibhusan Datta and Avadesh Narayan Singh
Published by Asia Publishing House, Bombay - 1935

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Preface:

Little is known at present to histori... Read More
 5 Jan 2015 Article/Essay
Article:
Understanding ancient Indian mathematics
By S.G.Dani
The Hindu - December 26, 2011

It is high time we studied our mathematical heritage with diligence and objectivity.

Quite often I find that conversations, with people from various walks of life, on ancient Indian mathematics slide to ... Read More
 5 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Book :
Hindu Achievements In Exact Science - A study in the history of scientific development
By Benoy Kumar Sarkar
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., New York - 1918

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The main object of this l... Read More
 4 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bhascara.
Translated by Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Published by John Murray, London - 1817

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 4 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Brief notes on the age and authenticity of the Works of Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Bhattotpala, and Bhaskaracharya
By Dr.Bhau Daji Lad
Published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1 - 1864

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 4 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of Hindu Mathematics - A Source Book
By Bibhuthibhusan Datta and Avadesh Narayan Singh
Published by Asia Publishing House, Bombay - 1935

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http://bit.ly/1wO7V03

Preface:

Little is known at present to historians of mathematics regarding the achievemen... Read More
 4 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ta'rikh al-hukama (History of Learned Men)
By Ibn Al-Qifti
Translated by Dr.Julius Lippert
Published by Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig - 1903

How the Hindu Numbers Came to the Arabs
(Circa 776)

Regarding the transmission of Hindu numbers to the Arabs, al-Qifti's... Read More
 4 Jan 2015 Article/Essay
Article:
India's contribution to Arab mathematics
By Khalil Jaouiche

Abstract:
This paper was presented at the Colloque de Saint-Denis de la Re-
union, November 3-7, 1997, and published in the book L 'Ocean Indien au carrefour des mathematiques arabes, chinoises, europeennes et indiennes (pp. 2... Read More
 25 Sep 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy, from the earliest dawn of science in India to the present time.
In two parts:
Part I. The ancient astronomy.
Part II. The modern astronomy, with an explanation of the apparent cause of its introduction, and the various impositions tha... Read More
 21 Jun 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Jatakachundrika or Moonlight to Astrology
By Suryanarain Row
Printed by K.Krishnaswami Aiyar, Madras - 1900

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 13 Jun 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
RAJADHARMA
By K.V.Rangaswami Aiyangar
Published by The Adyar Library, Adyar -1941

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Photograph of the lion capital of the Asoka Pillar at Basarh, Mizzarfurpur District, taken by Henry Bail... Read More