Vedic mathematics

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Namaste,

 

I just want to express my disappointment at the direction this

dialogue has taken!

 

It will ever remain a fallacy to hold that the validity of a truth of

a higher order can be proven by the methods used to discover truths of a

relatively lower oder.

 

The shadow of chauvinism rears its head in the most unexpected times

and places, and I thought I saw it here![i hope it was only a mirage!]

 

Let one not deviate from Shankara's admonition:

 

baandhaavaaH shivabhaktaashcha svadesho bhuvanatrayaH .

 

[All devotees of Truth are my brothers, and all the three worlds are my

national home.]

 

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

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aj~nebhyo granthinaH shreshhThaa

 

[better are those who read the shastras than those who do not.]

 

granthibhyo dhaariNo varaaH .

 

[better than those who merely read, are those who keep in mind what they

read.]

 

dhaaribhyo j~naaninaH shreshhThaa

 

[better than those who just remember, are those who

understand.]

 

j~naanibhyo vyavasaayinaH ..

 

[better than those who just know, are those who practise what they have

understood.]

 

Shri Bharati Tirtha Mahasvamigal, Sringeri

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>Ram Chandran <ramvchandran

>advaitin

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>Re: Vedic mathematics

>Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:22:13 -0700 (PDT)

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[Guest guest]

Greetings Raviji:

 

Thanks for pointing out the algebra of mathematical

computations and it is quite important. Your

observation on the book on Vedic Mathematics is well

taken. I believe that both memory and logic are both

quite important and they are quite interrelated. The

Vedic method of learning require the development of

greater amount of memory. Since nothing was written,

students were forced to memorize Sutras which served

as divine poems (stotras). Interestingly development

of memory was quite helpful in cultivating the logic

of computations. There is no connection between the

book on Vedic Mathematics and the discussion regarding

the mathematicians, Panini, Aryabatta, Bhaskera, etc.

 

Since we are all tuned to the modern methods of

learning mathematics using symbols and notations, the

ancient methods appear silly. We have no way to

establish that the modern method is more efficient!

Recently there was some discussion in Washington Post

regarding the methods of teaching mathematics in the

US Schools which avoid memorizing formulas. In the

latest national level test scores on mathematical

knowledge, the failure rate was quite high and the

failure was attributed to the new methods. Education

experts suggest the teaching methods of mathematics

should require students to memorize some basic

formulas. These discussions are likely to continue

because there are no clear answer to these questions.

We can create calculators and computers to do

computations but everyone needs to know at the

minimum, how to operate them efficiently! Computers

and calculators are means and not the ends.

 

Thanks again for your fine observations,

 

Ram Chandran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--- Ravi Mayavaram <miinalochanii wrote:

> Most of the material in that book which Ramji

> mentioned is very

> ordinary and it wont measure up to anything in

> modern mathematics.

> There may be something which is more profound and

> very advanced. But

> that book does not cover anything of that sort. The

> trick of

> multiplying 35*35 is very simple. If you write the

> number as (10n+5)....

[Guest guest]

Hari Om Sundarji:

 

Thanks for your thoughts on the pitfalls of endless

dialogues with no direction. My apologies for

overextending my memory on some illusive logic!

 

regards,

 

Ram Chandran

 

--- Sunder Hattangadi <sunderh wrote:

> Namaste,

>

> I just want to express my disappointment at

> the direction this

> dialogue has taken!

>

>