Lecture Notes and other Reading material for the course

FN-204 Algorithms in Ancient India

at University Of Hydearabad, Jan'18-April'18
  1. Lecture 1 5th Feb 2018 Algorithms: Introduction
  2. Lecture 2 6th Feb 2018 Introduction to Vedas
  3. Lecture 3 8th Feb 2018 Veda Vikruti-1
  4. Lecture 6 15th Feb 2018 Introduction to Sutra style
  5. Lecture 7 20th Feb 2018 Pingala and Kedar Bhatt's algorithms
  6. Lecture 8 21st Feb 2018 Pingala and Kedar Bhatt's algorithms Contd
  7. Lecture 9a 22nd Feb 2018 Gana v.rtta and DeBruijn cyclic order
  8. Lecture 9b 22nd Feb 2018 Fibbonacci Series
  9. Lecture 10 27th Feb 2018 Combinations from Lilavati
  10. Lecture 11a 6th Mar 2018 Permutations from Lilavati
  11. Lecture 11b 6th Mar 2018 Permutations from Lilavati
  12. Lecture 12a 7th Mar 2017 Introduction to Sulvasutra
  13. Lecture 12b 7th Mar 2017 Geometry and Arithmetic of Sulbasutras
  14. Lecture 12c 7th Mar 2017 Sulbasutras (Hindi Translation)
  15. Lecture 13 8th Mar 2017 Sulbasutras
  16. Lecture 14 Structure of Syenaciti (Falcon Alter)
  17. Lecture 15,16 14th and 15th Mar, 2018 Diophantine Equations and Kuttaka
  18. Lecture 17 20th Mar, 2018 Proof for Kuttaka's method

Supplementary Material for reading

  1. Mathematics of Vedas by R L Kashyap, Purdue University
  2. Introduction to Vedic Chanting
  3. Subhash Kak's note on yamaataaraajabhaanasalaga
  4. Subhash Kak's note on Binary Number System and Katapayadi
  5. Mathematics for Poets and Drummers by Rachel Wells Hall
  6. A History of Piingala's Combinatorics by Jayant Shah, Boston
  7. Greek and Vedic Geometry by Frits Staal
  8. Chapter 2 of Mathematics in India by Kim Plofkar