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Vedic Mathematics offers a fresh and highly efficient approach to mathematics
covering a wide range - starts with elementary multiplication and concludes with
a relatively advanced topic, the solution of non-linear partial differential
equations. But the Vedic scheme is not simply a collection of rapid methods; it
is a system, a unified approach, which can be swiftly learnt. Vedic Mathematics
extensively exploits the properties of numbers in every practical applications,
particularly in the field of computation. It makes available a whole range of
methods ideally suited to these properties. One of the principal formulae
(sutras) of Vedic Mathematics is "Vertically and Crosswise".
As the applications of this simple formula are extra-ordinarily diverse and
wide ranging, the present book probably only touching on its true extent. After
a detailed introduction to Vedic Mathematics, this book shows applications of
Vertically and Crosswise from basic calculations (multiplication, division,
reciprocals, squaring, square roots and combined operations) to the evaluation
of logarithms, exponentials, trigonometrical functions and the solution of
simultaneous, transcendental, polynomial and differential equations. The methods
shown are not only exceedingly efficient and new but have a unity and coherence
which renders them easy to master and enjoyable to execute.
This is an advanced book of sixteen chapters on one
Sutra ranging from elementary multiplication etc. to the solution of non-linear
partial differential equations. It deals with (i) calculation of common
functions and their series expansions, and (ii) the solution of equations,
starting with simultaneous equations and moving on to algebraic, transcendental
and differential equations. The text contains exercises and
answers
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