Author: L.Ravichandran

Aryabhata lived between 476 – 550 AD , 1550 years ago, and has been credited as the first major mathematician-astronomer from the Indian classical age.There was some confusion about his name was Aryabhatta or Aryabhata. There are numerous references in many astronomical book calling him Aryabhata and very few Aryabhatta. Hence it is generally agreed by scholars that he was…

Next in my Blog series on olden Indian Mathematicians and scientists is T Sundar Rao. He spells Rao as Row. His book called Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding was published in Madras (now Chennai) in 1893. As the title states, Sundara has demonstrated many geometric shapes and equations by using simple paper and by folding the paper in different ways…

Hope you all liked my Blog on Poththanar and as I promised I am ready with my 2 nd Blog on the same topic. I will be talking about Baudhayana, a Vedic scholar, philosopher, and mathematician who wrote in the Sanskrit language. Baudhayana lived in the 800 BC – 740 BC era, almost three thousand years ago. He wrote a…

Pothanayur lived around 800 BC i.e 2800 years ago and worked on many solutions to help the construction of dams, temples, and palaces which need measurements of various shapes. Lately, there are lots of discussions and excitement about Potanayur’s simpler alternate solution to the famous Pythogarus Theorem which is used to measure the hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle. Refer picture…