Mathematics

When you open the tap, the stream of water that hits the sink creates a very thin, fast-flowing, circular layer of water surrounded by a thicker, concentric ring of turbulent water.

Aryabhatta was only 23 when he composed his mathematical treatise– Aryabhatiya. The entire script was written in Sanskrit and hence reads like a poetic verse rather than a practical manual.

If you were to walk into the eighth grader’s classroom and ask him to add, subtract or multiply numbers ranging up to 20 crore, the right answer would come before you even manage to get your calculator out and punch in the numbers!

Indian-Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2016 in Mathematics for his exceptionally wide-ranging, fundamental and creative contributions to the modern number theory.

Mathematics is often one of the most dreaded and hated subjects in school. However, the people of ancient India absolutely loved the subject, and made great discoveries and inventions in it that have stood the test of time.