An international conference on Bhaskaracarya, 19-21 Sep 2014

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From: Vijay Bedekar <[email protected]>


Subject: International Conference on Bhāskarācārya



Date: 28 October, 2013 6:25:35 PM PDT


I am very happy to inform you that, to honour Bhāskarācārya, India’s celebrated mathematician and astronomer, on the 900th anniversary of his birth, Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane, Maharashtra, is organizing an International Conference on Friday, 19th; Saturday, 20th and Sunday, 21st-September 2014 at Thane, Maharashtra, India - 400 601. The details of the conference are available on the web site BHASKARA 900

 

[renuka]

Bhaskaracharya's Lilawati has some interesting way of teaching Mathematics!

I wonder why our text books these days are so boring?? No love based problems to solve!LOL

I always wondered why he actually made this one mathematical problem(see below) to solve..that too teaching his young widowed daughter..cos the contents was about a lover in action with his partner..that too illicit cos its about a woman and her lover..no mention about husband or wife here..this would certainly make a widowed girl aroused and also feel sad that she never had any conjugal pleasure in her life and will not get any chance to do so too since widow remarriage was not in vogue.


Whilst making love a necklace broke.
A row of pearls mislaid.
One sixth fell to the floor.
One fifth upon the bed.
The young woman saved one third of them.
One tenth were caught by her lover.
If six pearls remained upon the string
How many pearls were there altogether?

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear Renu,

I could solve the problem easily and get the result as 30 pearls but why is included here? :noidea:

Floor, bed and lover could have been replaced by three friends of that woman! :grouphug:

 

[Raji Ram]

I entered your profile page to find out who clicked 'like' for your post and got a surprise, Renu! :becky:

 

[renuka]

Dear Renu,

I could solve the problem easily and get the result as 30 pearls but why is included here? :noidea:

Floor, bed and lover could have been replaced by three friends of that woman! :grouphug:

Dear RR ji,

Exactly!

Why it has to have some Lovvu Givvu?

If maths were taught like this in schools these days..all parents will be shouting at teachers!

But you see may be Bhaskaracharya wanted to add some spice to make male students to study maths more!LOL

 

[renuka]

I entered your profile page to find out who clicked 'like' for your post and got a surprise, Renu! :becky:

Dear RR ji,

Dont be surprised..cos that nice person actually clicks like for posts with a sense of humor.

 

[renuka]

Floor, bed and lover could have been replaced by three friends of that woman! :grouphug:

OMG! RR ji,

You are making it worse!

Replace..floor,bed and lover with 3 women?

But you havent changed the act..that means some same gender group romp..and check out your smiley :grouphug:! Ha Ha Ha

 

[Raji Ram]

Lilavati has an interesting story associated with how it got its name.

Bhaskaracharya created a horoscope for his daughter Lilavati, stating exactly when she needed to get married.

He placed a cup with a small hole in it in a tub of water, and the time at which the cup sank was the optimum

time Lilavati was to get married. Unfortunately, a pearl fell into the cup, blocking the hole and keeping it from

sinking. Lilavati was then doomed never to wed, and her father Bhaskara wrote her a manual on mathematics

in order to console her, and named it Lilavati. This appears to be a myth associated with this classical work.

Source: Bhaskaracharya's Lilavathi

 

[Raji Ram]

.......... But you havent changed the act..that means some same gender group romp..and check out your smiley :grouphug:! Ha Ha Ha

ayyooooooo Renu! They are just friends playing 'Ringa Ringa Roses' and the pearls fall down! :lol:

Ringa Ringa Roses

 

[renuka]

Lilavati has an interesting story associated with how it got its name.

Bhaskaracharya created a horoscope for his daughter Lilavati, stating exactly when she needed to get married.

He placed a cup with a small hole in it in a tub of water, and the time at which the cup sank was the optimum

time Lilavati was to get married. Unfortunately, a pearl fell into the cup, blocking the hole and keeping it from

sinking. Lilavati was then doomed never to wed, and her father Bhaskara wrote her a manual on mathematics

in order to console her, and named it Lilavati. This appears to be a myth associated with this classical work.

Source: Bhaskaracharya's Lilavathi

Dear RR ji,

Actually he told the daughter not to look into the cup but she out of curiosity looked into the cup and a pearl from her nose ring fell into it.

 

[Brahmanyan]

I entered your profile page to find out who clicked 'like' for your post and got a surprise, Renu! :becky:

Dear Raji Maam,

I am an admirer of Bhaskaracharya’s Lilavati from my student days. Most of the maths problems in Lilavati are woven around pretty maidens. I was so happy our Doctor has given the simple but beautiful maths problem from the famous book and clicked the "like" for the post. Hope your surprise is cleared now.

Well, here is another one from "Lilavati", a little difficult one:

A beautiful maiden asks me: "Which is the number that, multiplied by 3,
then increased by three-fourths of the product, divided by 7,
diminished by one-third of the quotient, multiplied by itself, diminished by 52,
the square root found, addition of 8, division by 10, gives the number 2?"

Regards,ray2:
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

 

[vgane]

28 is the answer...We have to go reverse...Good puzzle

 

[Raji Ram]

28 is the answer...We have to go reverse...Good puzzle

Yes! After finding the result, check the net for correctness!! :ranger:

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear Brahmanyan Sir,

I was just kidding. The puzzle that Renu has posted might be difficult to handle in a co ed school!