Aravind Srinivas
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3,937 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Aravind Srinivas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, human beings would be doing the calculations.
That was their only job, like, to literally, like, multiply two numbers.
Or, like, to make some... Astronomers were actually the first mathematicians.
The term mathematician and astronomer were used synonymously at one point.
Yeah.
Yeah, because like studying the stars involved making a lot of geometry calculations.
And that was kind of actually one of the first set of mathematicians in India.
People like Aryabhata, Bhaskara, all these guys were actually astronomers too.
They were not just mathematicians.
And Aryabhatta was earlier still like the idea of using zeros.
And then he had a lot of like contributions in geometry.
And he was doing all this like just because he was interested in astronomy.
My theory is that even though it was not formulated as a Pythagorean theorem, I'm sure people had to understand concepts of sines and cosines and whatever is the right angle for the right incline to get this right level of geometry.
You needed to have some implicit understanding of it to build these kind of structures.
There's no way you could do it without that.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Because they're all curious.
That's it.
I would argue that anything that's of impact in the world has only been done by curious people.
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