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Origins and Discovery Vedic Mathematics is a school of thought that emerged in the 20th century as a result of the efforts of Jagadguru Swami Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja (1884-1960), the Shankaracharya of Govardhana Pitha in Puri. Tirthaji argued from 1911 to 1918 that this ancient system was recovered by Sanskrit scriptures as the Vedas, especially that which he termed as the Parishishta (appendix) of the Atharva Veda. Tirthaji, born in March 1884 in Puri, Orissa was a renowned scholar who had mastered Sanskrit, Mathematics, History and Philosophy. He spent eight years in solitude in the forests near Sringeri, where he did deep meditation and studied ancient literature which other scholars had accepted as having no mathematical content. It was in this state of meditation that he asserted that he had an intuition of the mathematical principles that would be used to base his system of Vedic Mathematics. The Sixteen Sutras and Mathematical Framework: The core of Vedic Mathematics c...

The History of Pi: From Ancient Civilizations to Modern Times The mathematical constant π (pi) represents one of humanity's most enduring intellectual pursuits, with its discovery and refinement spanning nearly four millennia across diverse civilizations. This comprehensive exploration reveals how ancient cultures independently recognized the fundamental relationship between a circle's circumference and diameter, gradually refining their understanding thru increasingly sophisticated methods. Ancient Foundations: The Dawn of Pi Mesopotamian Beginnings The earliest recorded approximations of π emerged from ancient Babylon around 2000 BCE, where mathematicians initially used the simple value of 3 for practical calculations. However, their mathematical sophistication extended beyond this basic approximation. A remarkable clay tablet discovered at Susa in 1936, dating to the Old Babylonian period (19th–17th century BCE), reveals a more refined approach. This tablet demonstrates that...