Sanskrit Mathematics & Science
Mathematics of the Vedas (Dec 2024) A YouTube video exploring the mathematical content embedded in Vedic literature — the sulbasutras (geometric manuals for constructing fire altars), Vedic number words encoding a decimal system, and the combinatorial calculations in Vedic meter theory (chandas). The video contextualizes India’s mathematical tradition within its sacred textual heritage. youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/
Recursion and Combinatorics in Chandashashtra (Mar 2025) An arXiv paper documenting that Pingala’s Chandashashtra (c. 200 BCE) — a prosody treatise on Sanskrit poetic meters — contains the earliest known description of a binary system, Pascal’s triangle, and Fibonacci sequences, arising from the combinatorial analysis of syllable patterns. The paper establishes India’s priority in recursive combinatorial thinking by nearly two millennia. arxiv.org — https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703658