Vedic Mathematics - The Student Taking Competitive Exams  (English, Paperback, Thakur Rajesh Kumar)

Indispensable to students appearing for Competitive Exams.In recent times, a renewed interest in Vedic Mathematics has grown all over the world, as it offers fast-track calculations in a simple way. With a little practice, one can solve tedious mathematical problems such as square roots, cube roots, multiplications and divisions etc. mentally in no time. A special method – Casting out Nines – counter checks all fundamental mathematical operations with ease.

About the Author
Rajesh Kumar Thakur, a postgraduate in Maths, Operation Research and Education, has been teaching secondary and senior secondary school students for the past twelve years.

The charm of numbers made him a lover of mathematics. He has been associated with many prestigious public schools in Delhi, Jharkhand and Rajasthan as a guest teacher of mathematics. He has written several books, and hundreds of his essays/articles have been published in many leading magazines and newspapers all over the country.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Vedic Mathematics
• Vedic Sutras
• Vedic Sub-Sutras

ADDITION

• Introduction, Vedic Sutras for Addition – Ekadhikena Purvena and Sunyanta, Its Meaning and Applications.

SUBTRACTION

• Introduction, Vedic Sutra for Subtraction – Ekadhikena Purvena and Param Mitra, Ekanyuena Purvena and Param Mitra, Its Meaning and Applications, Digit Separator Method for Subtraction.

MULTIPLICATION

• Introduction, Vedic Sutras – Nikhilam Navatascaramam Dasatah, Anurupyena, Ekanyuena Purvena and Urdhva-Tiryak, their Meaning and Applications, Dot and Stick Method of Multiplication, Multiplication of three numbers etc., Multiplication using Napier’s Rods.

DIVISION

• Introduction, Vedic Sutra – Nikhilam, Paravartya Yojayet and Dhwajanka, Their Meaning and Applications.

CASTING OUT NINES

• Introduction, Checking the accuracy of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

SQUARE

• Introduction, An Interesting Pattern, Relation between Triangular Number and Square Number, Vedic Method for Squaring – Ekadhikena Purvena, Anurupyena, Yavadunam and Duplex Method, Its Meaning and Applications.

SQUARE ROOT

• Introduction, Important Points to Remember, Aryabhatta’s Method to find the Square Root, Fundamental Rules to Extract the Square Root of a Number, Duplex Vedic Method for finding Square Root, Square Root of an Irrational Number.

CUBE

• Introduction, Properties of Cubic Number, Algebraic Method to find the Cube. Different Vedic Sutras – Anurupyena, Nikhilam, Ekadhikena Purvena and Yavadunam, Its Meaning and Applications.

CUBE ROOT

• Introduction, Important Points related to Cube Root, Vedic Method of finding Cube Root of any Number less than 7 digits, Vedic Method to Extract the Cube Root of any Number having 7, 8 or 9 digits.

SIMPLE EQUATIONS

• Introduction, Different Vedic Sutras – Sunyam Samya Samuccaya, Paravartya Yojyet and Anurupye Sunyamanyat, Its Meaning and Applications.

ANSWERS

• Bibliography