Uncovering the Truth About Vedic Mathematics 🧮: Myths and Realities

Often Vedic Mathematics is considered ancient India's crowning achievement in Mathematics. Is this really true?


Chapters
00:00 - What is Vedic Mathematics?
01:27 - The story of Vedic Mathematics
03:13 - Is Swamiji telling the truth?
05:22 - The book - Vedic Mathematics
07:41 - More evidence against Swamiji
08:14 - What's wrong with teaching our kids this?
10:35 - India's genuine Mathematical Achievements
11:32 - The Ted-talk
12:06 - Why should we care about all this?

Sources:

Primary source. Published by Prof. S. G Dani:
https://www.tifr.res.in/~vahia/dani-vmsm.pdf

Vedic Mathematics:
https://www.amazon.in/Vedic-Mathematics-Sixteen-Mathematical-Formulae/dp/8120801644/ref=sr_1_4?crid=S51ET70Y37F3&dchild=1&keywords=vedic+mathematics&qid=1594241568&sprefix=vedic+%2Caps%2C304&sr=8-4

The Shulbasutras
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana_sutras

Jaina and Kerala Schools of Math
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics#Jain_mathematics_(400_BCE_–_200_CE)

Swamiji's Political links
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/hindu-nationalists-claim-ancient-indians-had-airplanes-stem-cell-technology-and



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Corrections
As pointed out by Rex Galilae:
The Kerala school of math didn't invent calculus. They just solved some very specific problems that were later solved using calculus by people like MacLaurin and Taylor. While fantastic achievements in their own right, they were ad hoc solutions and NOT comparable to the seminal work by Newton.

As pointed out by Dani Sir:
While performing arithmetic operations with n digit numbers is no serious mathematics, there are longstanding problems about numbers, such as the Goldbach conjecture for instance, which have been subject of serious study.


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