Jan 2
NCERT Rewrites Geometry’s History With Baudhāyana at the Center
For most students, the formula a² + b² = c² is learned early and remembered for life. It is almost always introduced as the Pythagoras theorem, named after the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. From school classrooms to competitive exams, generations have grown up believing that this fundamental idea of geometry originated in ancient Greece. However, a recent change in India’s school curriculum is prompting students to look at this familiar equation from a very different historical perspective.