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Old October 23, 2005, 03:55 AM
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THE PYTHOGORAS THEOREM OR THE BAUDHAYANA THEOREM The so-called Pythagoras Theorem- the square of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides- was worked out earlier by Indian mathematicians.

In Baudhayana Shulba Sutra, a treatise dating back to the 6th Century BCE, it is described that "the area produced by the diagonal of a rectangle is equal to the sum of the area produced by it on two sides
source:http://www.vnn.org/world/9803/16-1698/

The word 'Geometry' seems to have emerged from the Indian word 'Gyaamiti, which means measuring the Earth. The word 'Trigonometry is similar to the word 'Trikonmiti', meaning measuring triangular forms.

Euclid is credited with the invention of Geometry in 300 BCE while the concept of Geometry in India, emerged in 1000 BCE. The treatise of 'Surya Siddhanta' in (4th Century CE) describes amazing details of trigonometry which were introduced to Europe 1200 years later in the 16th Century by Briggs.