Vedic Mathematics
1965 book by Bharati Krishna Tirtha / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Indian Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha and 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]
Author | Bharati Krishna Tirtha |
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Country | India |
Subject | Mental calculation |
Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass |
Publication date | 1965 |
ISBN | 978-8120801646 |
OCLC | 217058562 |
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]