There was this friend who used to talk a lot about Vedic Maths. Once he said, Indians were advanced in Science & Maths. Recently came across this article in which researchers from the universities of Manchester and Exeter say a group of scholars and mathematicians in 14th century India identified one of the basic components of calculus
The "Kerala school," a little-known group of scholars and mathematicians in fourteenth century India, identified the "infinite series" — one of the basic components of calculus — around 1350 Dr. George Gheverghese Joseph, a member of the research team, says the findings should not diminish Newton or Leibniz, but rather exalt the non-European thinkers whose contributions are often ignored. "The brilliance of Newton's work at the end of the seventeenth century stands undiminished — especially when it came to the algorithms of calculus. "But other names from the Kerala School, notably Madhava and Nilakantha, should stand shoulder to shoulder with him as they discovered the other great component of calculus — infinite series."India has been a land of Innovation and advanced sciences, the universities like Kanchi, Nalanda have been standing epitomes of knowledge even before the wester world realized the concept of Universities. Innovation, it reminds me on the series in Discovery "My Technology" . Here is a classical example of Indian Innovation -suffice to prove Innovation can happen anywhere
When talk about innovation, it's not possible to avoid talking about google. The company that has transformed the way we live life. Google began in March 1997 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford[1] working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). For More history of this innovative company , i'd recommend "Google Story" . Today Google is 13 years old, but it's as new and latest. There are very many reasons to be happy and delighted about google. For me personally google has been a source of great support. I'm sure it would be for everyone. A dependeable friend who will never let down for personal and professional support. Here is the Beta Screen Shot of google when it was launched 13 years back.
Snippet about Google - Doodle: The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Larry and Sergey asked then-intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000. Hwang has been designing the Google Doodles ever since. Clicking on a Google Doodle links to a string of Google search results about the topic.
Google doodles have been produced for the birthdays of several noted artists and scientists, including Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Rabindranath Tagore, Louis Braille, Percival Lowell, Edvard Munch, Nikola Tesla, Béla Bartók, René Magritte, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Akira Kurosawa, H. G. Wells, Freddie Mercury, Samuel Morse, Hans Christian Ørsted, Mohandas Gandhi, Dennis Gabor, Constantin Brancusi, Antonio Vivaldi, Abdel Halim Hafez, and Jules Verne among others.
Today's google doodle is on Google's birthday - It's really difficult to imagine life without google especially on the cost & effort that would have been spent otherwise.
Many More Happy Returns of the Day - GooGle
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