16th India Studies Webinar: Science in Ancient India by Prof Subhash Kak

[Professor Pankaj Jain पंकज जैन, Ph.D.]

 

Date and Time: Tuesday, Feb 14th 2023, 7pm 

Abstract:
Early Indian contributions to science that are not well known to the layperson include a deep theory of mind, Pāṇini’s astonishing Sanskrit grammar, binary numbers of Piṅgala, music theory, combinatorics, algebra, earliest astronomy, and the physics of Kaṇāda with its laws of motion. Of these, Kaṇāda is the least known. He may not have presented his ideas as mathematical equations, but he attempted something that no physicist to date has dared to do: he advanced a system that includes space, time, matter, as well as observers. He also postulated four types of atoms, two with mass (that turn out to be like proton and electron) and two with little mass (like the modern neutrino and photon), and the idea of invariance. A thousand or more years after Kaṇāda, Āryabhaṭa postulated that earth rotated and advanced the basic idea of relativity of motion. This webinar presents an overview of such scientific discoveries in ancient India.

 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://flameuniversity.zoom.us/j/93723576806
Passcode: 321336

Regards,

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Pankaj Jain, Ph.D., पंकज जैन 

Head, Humanities and Languages

Chair, The India Centre

Professor, Philosophy & Religious Studies

FLAME University

https://linktr.ee/ProfPankajJain

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