Learning Mathematics through Lucid Verses’. by Prof. K. Ramasubramanian, Eminent Scholar, IIT Bombay

India’s rich mathematical heritage runs back to several millennia. The tradition of transmission of knowledge from one generation to the other has been primarily oral in ancient India, which is partially true even today. Most of the knowledge systems have been couched in the form of metrical verses, since it would be far easier to commit poetry to memory than prose. This talk will provide a glimpse of the origin and development of mathematics in India, starting from the emergence of counting to the discovery of the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus in Kerala around the 14th century.