Discovering Samgamagrama
Madhavan
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Answer:
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Explanation:
Introduction
It is without doubt that mathematics today owes a
huge debt to the outstanding contributions made by Indian
mathematicians over many hundreds of years divided into
ancient (Apastamba, Baudhayana, Katyayana, Manava, Panini,
Pingala and Yajnavalkya); classical (Vararuchi, Aryabhata,
Varahamihira, Brahmagupta); medieval (Narayana Pandita,
Bhaskaracharya, Samgamagrama Madhavan, Nilakanda
Somayaji, Jyestadeva, Acyuta Pisaradi, Melpathur Narayan Bhattathiri, Sankaravarman); and modern ( Srinivas Ramanujan,
Harish Chandra, Narendra Karmakar S. Chandrasekhar, S.N.
Bose) periods. The beautiful number system (zero and decimal
system) invented by the Indians on which mathematical
development has rested is complimented by Laplace. ‘The
ingenious method of expressing every possible number using
a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an
absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple
nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no
longer appreciated. Its simplicity lies in the way it facilitated
calculation and placed arithmetic foremost amongst useful
inventions. The importance of this invention is more readily
appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the two
greatest men of Antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. It was
Einstein who said we should be grateful to Indians who taught
us how to count.’
While the rest of the world was in the dark ages, India made
strides in mathematics and holds a 3000-year legacy through the
works of Sulbakaras (800–600 BCE), Aryabhata, Varahamihira,
Brahmagupta, Bhaskaracharya, Samgamagrama Madhavan,
Nilakanda Somayaji, Jyestadeva, Sankaravarman extending
to Srinivasa Ramanujan, S N Bose, Harish Chandra Prasanta
Chandra Mahalanobis and reaching to the current period of
Narendra Karmakar, Jayan Narlikar, S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan,
E.C.G. Sudarsan and Thanu Padmanabhan.