Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like caesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery. Maharshi Sushruta is the father of surgery. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 1012. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 1053 with specific names as early as 5000 BC during the Vedic period. Quadratic equations were propounded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. This was ‘validated’ by British scholars in 1999.Īlgebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians. India The value of "pi" was first calculated by Boudhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. Bhaskaracharya II in Beejaganitha(stanza-20) has given clear explanation with examples for infinity Infinity was well known for ancient Indians. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days Madhavacharya discovered Leibnitz power series for pi about 300 years before Leibnitz.īhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Madhavacharya discovered Gregory Leibnitz series for the Inverse Tangent about 280 years before Gregory. ![]() Madhavacharya discovered Newton Power series. Madhavacharya discovered Taylor series of Sine and Cosine function about 250 years before Taylor. ![]() Positive and Negative numbers and their calculations were explained first by Brahmagupta in his book Brahmasputa Siddhanta.Īryabhatta also propounded the Heliocentric theory of gravitation, thus predating Copernicus by almost one thousand years. Nilakanta discovered Newton’s Infinite Geometric Progression convergent series. Parameswaracharya discovered Lhuiler’s formula about 400 years before Lhuiler. Vateswaracharya discovered Newton Gauss Backward Interpolation formula about 1000 years before Newton. Govindaswamin discovered Newton Gauss Interpolation formula about 1800 years before Newton. Arithmetic progression is explained in Yajurveda. Indians discovered Arithmetic and Geometric progression. India Theory of Continued Fraction was discovered by Bhaskaracharya II. He also had some clear notions on differential calculus, and the Theory of Continued Fraction.
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