Vedic Mathematics: A Mathematical Tale from the Ancient Veda to Modern Times - Couverture rigide

Dattoli, Giuseppe; Licciardi, Silvia; Artioli, Marcello

 
9789811221552: Vedic Mathematics: A Mathematical Tale from the Ancient Veda to Modern Times

Synopsis

This is a book about Mathematics but not a book of Mathematics. It is an attempt, between the serious and facetious, of conveying the idea that a mathematical thought is the result of different experiences, geographical and social factors. Even though it is not clear when Mathematics had started, it is evident that it had been used at an early stage of human history and by ancient Babylonians and Egyptians who have already developed a sophisticated corpus of mathematical items, which were the workhorse tools in engineering, navigation, trades and astronomy. The book sweeps across the mathematical minds of the Greek and Arab traditions, concepts by Assyro-Babylonians, and ancient Indian Vedic culture. The mathematical mind has modeled the evolution of societies and has been modeled by it. It is now in the midst of a great revolution and it is not clear where it will bring us. The current new epoch needs new mathematical tools and, above this, a new way of looking at Mathematics. This book tells the tale of what went on and what might go on.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Giuseppe Dattoli is a physicist and works in the ENEA research center in Frascati (Rome). He won the FEL prize in 1994 and is a leading expert in laser and accelerator physics. He has taught at various national and international universities, and has numerous publications in his specific research area. He is also known for his contributions in Mathematics, for which he received an honorary degree in Mathematics in 2017, and is the author of short stories and novels.

Silvia Licciardi graduated in Mathematics at the University of Palermo, Italy in 2011, received the II level Master in Scientific Calculus at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2013 and a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Catania in 2018 in collaboration with ENEA Frascati. During and after her studies, she produced several pubblications about Pure Mathematics, became an expert on Umbral Calculus, and Applied Mathematics on Biology, FEL and Carm. She is a researcher with GNFM and actively collaborates as contract research with ENEA and various universities in Italy.

Marcello Artioli received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from "Alma Mater" University of Bologna, Italy, in 1996. During and after the PhD in Electrotechnics he did some research on fault diagnosis of electromechanical systems and signal processing. In 2011 he joined the FEL team at ENEA, Frascati, Italy, where he has been working on control systems and computer science. He is now with the Department of Energy Efficiency at ENEA, Bologna, Italy.

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