Art. XXI.—Some Problems of Ancient Indian History

The History of Ancient Astronomy: Problems and Methods*

Ancient Indian Bacteriology

An attempt has been made in this paper to disseminate the formation of basic knowledge of bacteriology in ancient India. In the aetiology of many diseases microbial relation plays a role which was realized by the modern medicine only a century ago.

An ancient black art.

The doctrine of pseudoreplication (DP) offers specific advice on how to ensure statistical independence and compute F-ratios properly when testing a null hypothesis. Our target article showed that this advice can lead to problems in experimental design and analysis. Though a few commenters attempt to defend DP, none offered substantive evidence that our modeling results were incorrect. In our r...

Ancient Indian Square Roots

Our modern system of positional decimal notation with zero, together with efficient algorithms for computation, which were discovered in India some time prior to 500 CE, certainly must rank among the most significant achievements of all time. And it was not easy. As Pierre-Simon Laplace (1923) explained, “the difficulty of inventing it will be better appreciated if we consider that it escaped t...

Ancient Indian Mathematics

The aim of this article is to present a short outline of early Indian mathematics. I mean to summarize the results and contributions of Indian mathematics which were made in the period from the first civilization in Indian subcontinent to the 5 century AD when classical era of Indian mathematics began. Indus valley civilization The first use of mathematics in the Indian subcontinent was in the ...