Dear Jean-Michel, 

Congratulations with this publication, the result of many years of hard work, and a significant contribution to Vedic and Sanskrit studies and to the history of mathematics. 

Jan

      

Jan E.M. HOUBEN

Directeur d’Études

Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite

École Pratique des Hautes Études

Sciences historiques et philologiques 

54, rue Saint-Jacques

CS 20525 – 75005 Paris

johannes.houben@ephe.sorbonne.fr

https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben

www.ephe.fr

On 15 November 2016 at 21:06, Jean-Michel Delire <jmdelire@ulb.ac.be> wrote:

Dear list,

Your discussion reminds me the so-called Vedic mathematics, which are not Vedic at all. That is the reason why I have myself been very cautious not to use Vedic directly associated with mathematics in the title of my (just published) book : Les mathématiques de l'autel védique, or Mathematics of the Vedic Altar (the book is mainly in French). The altar is definitely vedic, and also the mathematics used to build it and explained in the book, but they are very different of what is nowadays - and inaccurately - called Vedic mathematics. If you want more information, see http://www.droz.org/eur/fr/6416-9782600013826.html

Best regards,

Jean Michel Delire


>Hi Patrick,
>

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