Description
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAI122 |
| Author: | J.T. Glover |
| Publisher: | MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD. |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2008 |
| ISBN: | 9788120818194 |
| Pages: | 253 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 270 gm |
Book Description
About the Book
In this book the Vedic techniques are applied to ordinary school mathematics for eleven and twelve years-old. The arithmatic introduced in books 1 & 2 is extended. The book also deals with the initial stages of solving equations, coordinate geometry, approximations, indices, parallels, triangles, ratio and proportion as well as other topics.
Once a basic grounding has been established with the Vedic methods the next stage is the beginning of discrimination. A problem is set and, armed with several techniques, the student must choose the easiest or most relevant for achieving the solution. This book deals with some of the steps required for this training.
About the Author
J.T. GLOVER is head of mathematics at St. James Independent Schools in London where he has been a teacher for eighteen years. He is director of mathematical studies at the School of Economic Science and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He has been researching Vedic mathematics and its use in education for more than twenty years and has run public courses in London on the subject. Other books by the author are: An Introductory Course in Vedic Mathematics, Vedic Mathematics for Schools, Books 1, 2 and Foundation Mathematics, Books 1, 2 and 3.
Preface
Vedic Mathematics for Schools is an exceptional book. It is not only a sophisticated pedagogic tool but also an introduction to an ancient civilisation. It takes us back to many millennia of India’s mathematical heritage. Rooted in the ancient Vedic sources which heralded the dawn of human history and illumined by their erudite exegesis, India’s intellectual, scientific and aesthetic vitality blossomed and triumphed not only in philosophy, physics, ecology and performing arts but also in geometry, algebra and arithmetic. Indian mathematicians gave the world the numerals now in universal use. The crowning glory of Indian mathematics was the invention of zero and the introduction of decimal notation without which mathematics as a scientific discipline could not have made much headway. It is noteworthy that the ancient Greeks and Romans did not have the decimal notation and, therefore, did not make much progress in the numerical sciences. The Arabs first learnt the decimal notation from Indians and introduced it into Europe. The renowned Arabic scholar, Alberuni or Abu Raihan, who was born in 973 A.D. and travelled to India, testified that the Indian attainments in mathematics were unrivalled and unsurpassed. In keeping with that ingrained tradition of mathematics in India, S. Ramanujan, the man who knew infinity, the genius who was one of the greatest mathematicians of our time and the mystic for whom a mathematical equation had a meaning because it expressed a thought of God, blazed many new mathematical trails in Cambridge University in the second decide of the twentieth century even though he did not himself possess a university degree.
The real contribution of this book, Vedic Mathematics for Schools, is to demonstrate that Vedic mathematics belongs not only to an hoary antiquity but is any day as modem as the day after tomorrow. What distinguishes it particularly is that it has been fashioned by British teachers for use at St James Independent Schools in London and other British schools and that it takes its inspiration from the pioneering work of the late Bharati Krishna Tirthaji, a former Sankaracharya of Puri, who reconstructed a unique system on the basis of ancient Indian mathematics. The book is thus a bridge across centuries, civilisations, linguistic barriers and national frontiers.
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