For developments in mathematics in the Vedic period, see Indian mathematics § Vedic period.
Vedic Mathematics
Author
Bharati Krishna Tirtha
Country
India
Subject
Mental calculation
Publisher
Motilal Banarsidass
Publication date
1965
ISBN
978-8120801646
OCLC
217058562
Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Bharati Krishna Tirtha, first published in 1965. It contains a list of mathematical techniques which were falsely claimed to contain advanced mathematical knowledge.[1] The book was posthumously published under its deceptive title by editor V. S. Agrawala,[2] who noted in the foreword that the claim of Vedic origin, made by the original author and implied by the title, was unsupported.[3]
Neither Krishna Tirtha nor Agrawala were able produce the sources, and scholars unanimously note it to be a compendium of methods for increasing the speed of elementary mathematical calculations sharing no overlap with historical mathematical developments during the Vedic period. Nonetheless, there has been a proliferation of publications in this area and multiple attempts to integrate the subject into mainstream education at the state level by right-wing Hindu nationalist governments.[4][5]
S. G. Dani of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay wrote that despite the dubious historigraphy, some of the calculation methods it describes are themselves interesting, a product of the author's academic training in mathematics and long recorded habit of experimentation with numbers.[3]
^Cooke, Roger L. (2013). "Overview of Mathematics in India". The history of mathematics : a brief course. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-118-46029-0. OCLC 865012817.
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