Math and Computation in the Indic Scientific Tradition
Date - 1st March 2018
MIT School of Vedic Sciences (SVS) is organizing a free one-day workshop on "Math and Computation in the Indic Scientific Tradition".
Workshop Topic: Math and Computation in the Indic Scientific Tradition
Did you know?
1) Several basic ideas in maths, logic and computation were first formulated in the Indic scientific tradition several centuries ago.
2) Concepts such as iteration, backtracking, curve fitting, algorithms and logic were an integral part of the Indic tradition.
Speaker: By Prof. K. Gopinath (Professor of Computer Science, IISc Bangalore)
Date: Thursday, 1st March 2018
Time: 9.30am to 1pm and 2 - 4.30pm
Venue: Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, B.Ed. College Building, MIT-ADT University, Loni Kalbhor, Pune
Registration: Free - Participants should be 10+2 with math exposure and basic computer science exposure is preferred.
For registration, mail to [email protected] - For details contact on 9112219018
Benefits:
1) Student internship opportunities at IISc Bangalore (subject to screening),
2) Participants will know about ancient India’s contributions in contemporary subjects like algebra, logic, linguistics and computation, which lead to student projects in implementing Indic algorithms
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