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India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100BC.
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Aryabhatta was the first to explain spherical shape, size, diameter,
rotation and correct speed of earth in 499AD.
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The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC.
More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
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The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of
the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
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Sanskrit is considered the mother of all higher languages.
Sanskrit is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software -
a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
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Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
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Christopher Columbus was attracted India's wealth and was looking for
route to India when he discovered the American continent by mistake.
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The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago.
The word ‘Navigation’ is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also
derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
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In Siddhanta Siromani (Bhuvanakosam 6) Bhaskaracharya II described about
gravity of earth about 400 years before Sir Isaac Newton. He also had some clear notions
on differential calculus, and the Theory of Continued Fraction.
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Madhavacharya discovered Taylor series of Sine and Cosine function
about 250 years before Taylor.
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Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun
hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun:
(5th century) 365.258756484 days
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Infinity was well known for ancient Indians. Bhaskaracharya II in
Beejaganitha(stanza-20) has given clear explanation with examples for infinity
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Indians discovered Arithmetic and Geometric progression.
Arithmetic progression is explained in Yajurveda.
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Positive and Negative numbers and their calculations were explained
first by Brahmagupta in his book Brahmasputa Siddhanta.
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The value of "pi" was first calculated by Boudhayana, and he explained
the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th
century long before the European mathematicians. This was ‘validated’ by British scholars in 1999
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Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic
equations were propounded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
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The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas
Hindus used numbers as big as 1053 with specific names as early as 5000 BC during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 1012.
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Maharshi Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and
health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like caesareans,
cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery.
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Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.
Over 125 surgical equipments were used.
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