Schools around the world use the Indian numeral system, but don’t mention Indian mathematicians or the mathematical techniques they invented. Aryabhata is wrongly believed to have discovered zero. But Aryabhata gave the world algorithms for square and cube roots, that exploit the place value system, and a fundamental understanding of algebra, which almost no school or college teaches.

In this workshop, we will demonstrate both these algorithms, explain the fundamental logic behind them, and guide attendees to compute square and cube roots using Aryabhata’s methods.