The Indian LoveAffair with Number

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The Indian Love-Affair with Number

• BJ Houlding
• 10/16/07

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A Long Long Time Ago

• Mohenjo Daro
• Invaders
• Aryans
• Persians
• Greeks
• Gupta

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Hinduism OR Core 7 Strikes Back

• Religion
• Sanskrit
• Caste System
• Back off!
• Buddhists
• Muslims
• Zoroastrians
• Christians

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DrumrollDecimal System!
0!

• Symbols
• Place System
• Aaaaaand
• 0!

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Vedic Altars

• Rig-Vedas
• Purvas
• Dakshina
• Garhapatya
• Ahavaneeya

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Other Ceremonies

• Kamyagnis
• Elaborate altars
• Circle/Square Complications
• Sulva Sutras
• Rope/Cord

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Vs. Greeks

• Pythagoras
• Incommensurability
• Verse
• Leisure
• Love-affair

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Jaina

• Pataliputra
• Mahariva
• 600 B.C.
• Earth
• Population

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Ten Precepts

• Parikarma - /
• Vyavahara definitude
• Rajju Geometry
• Kalasavarma x/y
• Yavat-tawat x?
• Varga squares
• Varga-vargapowers/roots
• Ghanacubes
• Vikalpa Permutations and Combinations

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Three Numbers and Infinity

• 3 Types
• Enumerable
• Non-enumerable
• Infinite
• 4 types
• Positive
• Negative
• Area
• Time

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The Pulveriser

• Aryabhata
• 475
• Indeterminate equations
• Example
• Pi
• Sines
• Copernicus

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Bhramagupta

• 598
• Quadratic Equation
• Linear Equations
• Zero

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Bhaskara

• 1150
• Siddhanta Siromani
• Leelavahti
• Problem Presentation

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Final Judgment

• Ethnocentricity
• Anti-Naturalism
• Paganistic Denial