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Jaina Mathematics
The Jain school of mathematics is a school of mathematics whose members are distinguished by the fact that they are followers of the Jain religion. All members of the Jain school of mathematics are also members of the larger community of Indian mathematicians. The mathematics developed by this school forms a subset of the body of mathematical knowledge developed in India since ancient times. However, certain aspects of the cosmological and philosophical speculations of the Jain religion has impacted the mathematical thinking of the adherents of the Jain religion. As an example, one can cite the fascination of the Jains (followers of the Jain religion) for very large numbers and their speculations relating to the concept of infinity. References Additional reading * (Reprinted with the title: “The mathematical achievements of the Jainas”. In: Studies in the History of Science in India (ed. D. Chattopadhyaya), New Delhi, 1982, pp. 684–716.) * *Jain, L C. On the Jaina sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jain Religion
Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion whose three main pillars are nonviolence (), asceticism (), and a rejection of all simplistic and one-sided views of truth and reality (). Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four , supreme preachers of ''dharma''. The first in the current time cycle is Rishabhadeva, who tradition holds lived millions of years ago; the 23rd is Parshvanatha, traditionally dated to the 9th century BCE; and the 24th is Mahavira, who lived . Jainism is considered an eternal ''dharma'' with the guiding every time cycle of the cosmology. Central to understanding Jain philosophy is the concept of ''bhedavijñāna'', or the clear distinction in the nature of the soul and non-soul entities. This principle underscores the innate purity and potential for liberation within every soul, distinct from the physical and mental elements that bind it to the cycle of birth and rebirth. Recognizing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Mathematics
Indian mathematics emerged in the Indian subcontinent from 1200 BCE until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Varāhamihira, and Madhava of Sangamagrama, Madhava. The Decimal, decimal number system in use today: "The measure of the genius of Indian civilisation, to which we owe our modern (number) system, is all the greater in that it was the only one in all history to have achieved this triumph. Some cultures succeeded, earlier than the Indian, in discovering one or at best two of the characteristics of this intellectual feat. But none of them managed to bring together into a complete and coherent system the necessary and sufficient conditions for a number-system with the same potential as our own." was first recorded in Indian mathematics. Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of 0 (number), ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science And Technology In India
After independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, initiated reforms to promote higher education and science and technology in India. The Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)—conceived by a 22-member committee of scholars and entrepreneurs in order to promote technical education—was inaugurated on 18 August 1951 at Kharagpur in West Bengal by the Minister of Education (India), minister of education Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. More IITs were soon opened in Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi as well in the late 1950s and early 1960s along with the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) (now National Institutes of Technology (NIT). Beginning in the 1960s, close ties with the Soviet Union enabled the ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation to rapidly develop the Indian space program and advance nuclear power in India even after Smiling Buddha, the first nuclear test explosion by India on 18 May 1974 at Pokhran. India accounts fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
