Lecture Notes and other Reading material for the course
FN-204 Algorithms in Ancient India
at University Of Hydearabad, Jan'18-April'18
- Lecture 1 5th Feb 2018 Algorithms: Introduction
- Lecture 2 6th Feb 2018 Introduction to Vedas
- Lecture 3 8th Feb 2018 Veda Vikruti-1
- Lecture 6 15th Feb 2018 Introduction to Sutra style
- Lecture 7 20th Feb 2018 Pingala and Kedar Bhatt's algorithms
- Lecture 8 21st Feb 2018 Pingala and Kedar Bhatt's algorithms Contd
- Lecture 9a 22nd Feb 2018 Gana v.rtta and DeBruijn cyclic order
- Lecture 9b 22nd Feb 2018 Fibbonacci Series
- Lecture 10 27th Feb 2018 Combinations from Lilavati
- Lecture 11a 6th Mar 2018 Permutations from Lilavati
- Lecture 11b 6th Mar 2018 Permutations from Lilavati
- Lecture 12a 7th Mar 2017 Introduction to Sulvasutra
- Lecture 12b 7th Mar 2017 Geometry and Arithmetic of Sulbasutras
- Lecture 12c 7th Mar 2017 Sulbasutras (Hindi Translation)
- Lecture 13 8th Mar 2017 Sulbasutras
- Lecture 14 Structure of Syenaciti (Falcon Alter)
- Lecture 15,16 14th and 15th Mar, 2018 Diophantine Equations and Kuttaka
- Lecture 17 20th Mar, 2018 Proof for Kuttaka's method
Supplementary Material for reading
- Mathematics of Vedas by R L Kashyap, Purdue University
- Introduction to Vedic Chanting
- Subhash Kak's note on yamaataaraajabhaanasalaga
- Subhash Kak's note on Binary Number System and Katapayadi
- Mathematics for Poets and Drummers by Rachel Wells Hall
- A History of Piingala's Combinatorics by Jayant Shah, Boston
- Greek and Vedic Geometry by Frits Staal
- Chapter 2 of Mathematics in India by Kim Plofkar