HISTORY
RIG VEDIC PERIOD
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Question
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Pythagoras theorem
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Algebra
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Arithmetic
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Tables
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Detailed explanation-1: -Baudhayana Sulbasutra contains a statement of what is called Pythagoras theorem (it was known rather as a geometric fact, and not as a ‘theorem’). The yajna rituals involved construction of altars (vedi) and fireplaces (agni) in a variety of shapes such as isosceles triangles, symmetric trapezia, and rectangles.
Detailed explanation-2: -They say that the ancient Indian mathematician Baudhayan, who lived around 800 BCE a clean three centuries before Pythagoras, had laid down the theorem in vedic texts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pythagoras was a teacher and a philosopher. Pythagoras found out that for a right angle triangle (with one of the angles being 90o), the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides: a2+b2=c2. In other words, the green square’s area (with area c2) equals the sum of two others.