MullahNasiruddin

MORNING MUSINGS ON THIS MONDAY 27/8/2018 I'm not going to talk about the beginnings or the heights of Indian mathematics, that start in the hoary past shrouded in the mists of time that can, in the present time, be taken to 10,000 BC. I am just going to talk about ONE MAN celebrated by the West as the father of many things, in common use, in India a thousand years before him – at least – in all cases even before his birth. Issac Newton - 1643 - 1727 and calculus is attributed to him. He could not have developed calculus as a young man, so let’s put it t the turn of 17-18 century. Earliest, by 1780. He is attributed with the development of calculus, the laws of Motion, concept of gravity et al. Did he do all that? I will not go into laws of motion but refer to Kanada aka Kashyapa, Uluka, Kananda and Kanabhuk who lived between 6th and 2nd Century BC. That’s at least a 1000 years before Newton. On his atom pricipl and first atomic table I will deal separately. ...

                              SUNDAY MORNING MUSING I was discussing a shloka in a mantra tradition with my son-in-law, an Engineer, and he suddenly identified the Fibonacci series embedded in it. I had studied it maybe 30 years ago long ago and forgotten it. He reminded me. [it is gratifying to have so-in-law capable of understanding and interested and willing to accept the knowledge being conveyed in such things] Fibonacci series envisions the adding of two previous numbers creating the next highest. The sequence Fn of Fibonacci numbers is defined by the recurrence relation: F n = F n − 1 + F n − 2 , {\display style F_{n}=F_{n-1}+F_{n-2},} {\display style F_{n}=F_{n-1}+F_{n-2},} with seed values[1][2] F 1 = 1 , F 2 = 1 {\display style F_{1}=1,\;F_{2}=1} {\display style F_{1}=1,\;F_{2}=1} or[5] F 0 = 0 , F 1 = 1. {\display sty...