I-SERVE NATIONAL SEMINAR REPORT

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*JAYA GURU DATTA*

*National Seminar on “Vedic Mathematics – Past, Present, & Future” on

20-21st March 2010 - A Report*

 

 

 

After the successful conduction of a National Workshop on “ Tantric

Mathematics” in the divine presence of H.H. Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda

Swamiji, a few days back I-SERVE in association with Siksha Sanskriti Utthan

Nyas, New Delhi, conducted a two day National Seminar on the above subject

at Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology, Narayana guda, Hyderabad. Over

two hundred delegates from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra,

Tamilnadu, Kerala and New Delhi participated and deliberated extensively on

the application aspects of Vedic Mathematics.

 

 

 

“The inaugural session at 11.AM on 20th March was chaired by Sri Deenath

Batarji of Siksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas and the Key Note Address was

delivered by Prof. K.V.Krishna Murty, Chairman, I-SERVE. Prof. Murty, in his

address reviewed the relevance of Vedic sciences in general and

contemporary relevance of Vedic mathematics in particular. He emphasized the

point that Vedic Mathematics means all the mathematics that was inherited by

us from the Vedas, post Vedic scientific literature, Tantra Sastra, Chandas

Sastra, Puranas, Khagola Saastra etc and he enriched his speech by showing

suitable examples for the presence of mathematics in the above mentioned

sources.

 

 

 

Later in the technical sessions, research papers of three categories were

presented, viz.,

 

(i) papers which attempted to extend the

principles of Sri Bharati Krishna Teertha’s formulas

 

(ii) papers which tried for applying the same

formulae to other branches like Engineering, computing etc.,

 

(iii) and papers which brought out the

mathematical portions of other ancient sastras, like Chandas Saastra.

 

 

 

In the last category, the paper presented by Dr. Rajendran of Kerala draw

the full attention of the audience, since he very clearly proved that the so

called most modern “Biennial System of Numbers” which is being used in the

present day computers, was very much present in the “Chandas Saastra” of

Pingala (3rd Century B.C) and he declared that he is going to bring out a

full fledged research work on this subject very soon.

 

 

 

Dr. Damodar Kulkarni, Dr. R.V.S.S Avadhanulu, Sri Ram Prasad Sri Ramu and

others presented good papers on subjects related to the 2nd category

mentioned above.

 

 

 

Sri M. Seeta Rama Rao, who is an active member of both SSUN & I-SERVE and

who is the Chief coordinator of this seminar presented a good paper on some

aspects of his newly intended “Ganitaavadhanam” which he is going to

publish in the form of a book very soon.

 

 

 

On 21st March, the invited speech by Prof.V.Kannan, Pro Vice Chancellor,

Central University of Hyderabad, was a great attraction. He depicted

chronologically starting from 13th Century BC, to 15 century A.D. how the

most crucial mathematical findings of Indian origin were later on declared

as western findings.

 

 

 

Some students also were encouraged by giving them a chance to speak briefly.

In all, there were 5 technical sessions, in which 12 research papers were

presented. All the paper presenters and session Chair persons were honored

by Prof. K.V.Krishna Murty with a shawl and a set of I-SERVE publications.

 

 

The Valedictory address was delivered by Prof. Ananta Vyawahare of Nagpur

and the vote of thanks was proposed by Sri Gowtham Rao. The seminar

concluded at 5 PM on 21st March 2010.

 

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