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5 Rumors About Vedic Mathematics

Rumors About Vedic Mathematics is spreading like a fire. Don’t Believe in something that is not true.

If you do that you will miss to swim the ocean of Vedic Mathematics. You can never get rid from the fear of Maths.

You can’t enjoy learning Vedic Mathematics and moreover you won’t be respecting the work of Indian Mathematicians who have written Vedic Mathematics years ago.

Rumors are Carried By Haters, Spread By Fools and Accepted By Idiots. Whenever I visit any educational organisation and ask a straightforward question to my audience ” Do you have any basic Knowledge Of Vedic Mathematics?”

There is ubiquitous Answer, i.e. No.

But,

When I asked them ” Have you heard anything about Vedic Mathematics?”

Then this time they give me answer like:-

Sir, It is similar to abacus.

It’s just a shortcut trick.

Vedic Maths will be useful for the competitive exam. Etc….

As a Vedic mathematics Trainer I know, These all answer is falling under the category of Rumors About Vedic Mathematics But the point is who spread this?

Most Interesting Part of this conversation is that the student who doesn’t know about the Vedic Mathematics are well aware of Rumors About Vedic Mathematics.

So, Today I made a post to abolish this Rumors About Vedic Mathematics, and moreover, I hope its give you some clarity on this subject. Here I am going to include some of the most common Rumors about Vedic mathematics and its Related Facts.

List of Rumors about Vedic Mathematics:

It’s similar to Abacus. It’s Just a shortcut Tricks. Vedic Maths concept is not Logical. Vedic Maths is useful only for higher Competitive Exam. It encourages the rote learning. Facts About Vedic Mathematics:

You know the Rumors about Vedic Mathematics, Now know the facts.

Vedic Maths is more then what you might know. It is like a ocean of Maths. It got a lot of features that makes it much better then normal mathematics.

Vedic Maths is more than Abacus. The concept of Vedic Mathematics was introduced by Indian Mathematics years ago. Book on Vedic Mathematics was written by Indian Mathematician Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaj. as whereas Abacus comes from the foreign countries.

To learn Abacus, you need a tool, It is a teaching Methodology. Students below 3rd class are taught to count the numbers and to do the basic arithmetic operations. Where as Vedic Mathematics Dont need any kind of tools. Anyone from any class can start learning Vedic Mathematics.

Vedic Mathematics just dont have tricks. But to make it easier in schools and colleges to learn Vedic Mathematics, Tips and Tricks are been taught to learn more in less time.

Vedic Mathematics concepts are logical. It Depends upon your IQ and Math Grasping power to understand things faster and better.

The Added Advantage of Vedic Mathematics is, it will be useful for competitive exams.

Usually for some students, rote learning helps them to learn faster and remember longer. So most of the students prefer to rote learning for Vedic Maths but there is no hard and fast rule that if you have to learn Vedic Math then you have to do rote learning.

Conclusion

Rumors About Vedic Mathematics has been spreading throughout the world from decades. But knowing the fact is also important. Vedic Mathematics is more than what anyone can even imagine.

Great Indian Mathematicians like Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaj, Bhaskara, Aryabhatta, Shakuntala Devi, Ramanujam and others contributed and researched about Vedic Mathematics. In conclusion, Know the true worth of Vedic Mathematics, Learn it, Practice it. This will help you in future

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Mādhava of Sangamagrama was a Middle Ages Indian mathematician and astronomer from Thrissur District, Kerala, India. He was born in c. 1340 BC. He started a school in kerala called the Kerala school of mathematics and astronomy. He has made significant contributions to the field of mathematics in topics like calculus, geometry, infinite series, algebra, and trigonometry. He was the first mathematician who has applied the endless series in trigonometric functions like sin, cosine, tangent.

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Mahāvīra or Mahaviracharya was a 9th-century Jain mathematician born near to Mysore, in southern India. He was born in the year 815 AD. He was one of the first few mathematicians in India who contributed significantly to the field of mathematics. He worked as a teacher and was a member of a school of mathematics. He used to work with Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha and applied his mathematical skills to do something good for society. He died in 875 AD.

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Thales of Miletus was a Greek Mathematician, Scientist, Philosopher, and Astronomer. He was an Engineer by profession. He was born in 548/545 BC. He was born to Cleobuline and Examyes. Out of the Seven Sages of Greece he was one of them. He died in 624/623. BC. He was the teacher of Anaximander.

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Pierre de Fermat was a French Mathematician who is famous for early developments on infinitesimal calculus. He is known for his technique of adequality. He also discovered the original method of finding the smallest and the greatest ordinates of curved lines. He is also famous for many of his other research works on number theory.

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Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli was one of the well known Italian Mathematicians. He has done much research and has contributed a lot to the field of accounting. In Europe, He is known as “The Father of Bookkeeping and Accounting.” He published a book that gives details about the double-entry system of bookkeeping.

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G.H Hardy (Godfrey Harold Hardy) was an English Mathematician. He was born on 7 February 1877. He has done considerable research on mathematical analysis and number theory. He became famous because of his mathematical essay ” A Mathematician’s Apology. “

He worked with Srinivasa Ramanujan, who is considered one of the greatest Indian Mathematicians.

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Brahmagupta was one of the first and greatest mathematicians of his era.He was not only a master of astronomy, but he was also an expert in mathematics, in topics like algorithmics, algebra, trigonometry, and geometry.

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Aryabhata or Aryabhatta was one of the greatest Mathematicians of India. He was an astrologer and mathematician too. He was the first of the significant mathematician of India who has made great contributions in the field of mathematics and astronomy, which are being used throughout the globe in today’s generation. His works have inspired many people. He is also known as the father of the Indian cyclic astronomy because of his planetary theory that tells the right positions and distances of the planets. English Mathematicians, too learnt many things from the learnings of Aryabhata.

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Varahamihira is an Indian Mathematician who was born during the early 6th-century. He was born in the Avanti region and brought up in Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh, India).  

After Meeting Aryabhatta, He got the inspiration to become a mathematician and astrologer. He was studied at Kapitthaka. He is one of the “Nine Jewels” of the court of emperor Yashodharman Vikramaditya of Malwa.

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Sri Dharacharya was an Indian Mathematician who was born in 870 CE and died in c. 930 CE. Apart from being a Mathematician, he was also a Philosopher and Sanskrit pandit. He was born in Bhuriśreṣṭi which is currently known as Hugli. He was born to Baladevācārya and Acchoka Bai who were Sanskrit pandit and philosopher too.

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Baudhayana was an Indian Mathematician who was born in 800 BC and dies in 740 BC. He was a Vedic brahmin priest. He is said to be the original founder of Pythagoras’s Theorem. He was the first-ever Indian Mathematician who came up with several concepts in Mathematics. He was one of the mathematicians who used his mathematical skills in a practical way by being a skilled craftsman. The value of pi was first calculated by him.

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Bhaskara 1 was an Indian Mathematician and Astronomer who was born in c. 600 BC at Valabhi, near modern Bhavnagar, Saurashtra, Gujarat, India. and died in the c. 680 BC. He was one of the most famous mathematicians from the 7th-century. His father taught him Mathematics when he was young. He worked as a scholar of Aryabhata’s astronomical school. The first mathematician who has written numbers in the Hindu decimal system was him. He Explored the work of Aryabhatta and worked on the Sine Function and gave a more approximate value of Sine.

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Hipparchus of Nicaea was a Greek Mathematician, Astronomer, Geographer from 190 BC. He is considered the founder of trigonometry. He is also famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equinoxes. He used to work on astrology and is also considered as the greatest ancient astronomical observer.

He created the first-ever model for the motion of the Sun and Moon. He has developed a method to predict solar eclipses. He even measured the Earth’s precession. He even star catalog the starsThis has inspired many other astronomers to do the same.

He was the first who wrote the trigonometric tables, and many of spherical trigonometry problems were solved by him. He invented the armillary sphere and the astrolabe.

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Heron of Alexandria was a Greek Mathematician and Engineer who was born in Alexandria, Roman Egypt in c. 10 AD. He was famous for doing experiments. He spent his lifetime in Egypt learning, experimenting, and teaching Engineering and Mathematics. It is assumed that Hero used to teach at the Museum. He died in c. 70 AD.

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Puri Shankaracharya or His Holiness Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Shri Nischalananda Saraswati was Born in 1943 in Haripur Bakshitol in North India. His parents were a priest. He has done his primary education in Sciences, Vedic Mathematics and Sanskrit.