Description: Not only the sign for zero, but also the binary number system, the ideas of metarules, algebraic transformation, recursion, hashing, mathematical l

The material in this book presents an introduction to the Indian contributions to the science of computing. The book starts with an overview of Indian science.

Did you know . . . • Ancient cultures measured time accurately with water clocks? • An engineer in the first century B.C. designed an odometer to calculate

Discusses the methods of computation developed in various civilizations around the world, from prehistoric times up until the end of the Roman Empire.

This volume traces back the history of interaction between the “computational” or “algorithmic” aspects of elementary mathematics and mathematics educat