OoC-IIScPress Book Release - "The Computation Meme: Computational Thinking in the Indic Traditions"

IISc Press Book Release
The Computation Meme: Computational Thinking in the Indic Traditions
Book Release by
Professor Vinod Ganapathy on
Date: 8 April 2024 (Monday)
Time: 10 am
Venue: SV Narasaiah Auditorium, IAP, IISc
About the book: Computational thinking has been a prominent theme in the Indic view of reality since very early times. It is not surprising therefore that drk.ganitaikya (दृग्गणितैक्य or "computational positivism" as Roddam Narasimha has characterised it) has informed many disciplines in India such as astronomy and grammar. The key principle here is the correspondence between observations and computations.
The Indic position, which is based on computational models, has not received due recognition because of the hitherto dominant paradigm of deductive mathematics.
Nowadays, the computational model has significant adherents, whether in computational fluid mechanics, biology, finance, etc. The articles in this volume illustrate the computational perspective in diverse Indic domains. We hope this volume opens a healthy debate on the continued relevance of the Indic perspectives on understanding the world.