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The Mathematics of Vedic Altars: How the Śulba Sūtras Anticipated Geometry
To build a fire altar precisely shaped like a falcon out of exactly 1,000 bricks, the Vedic ritual tradition developed the first formal geometry on the Indian subcontinent — and stated the Pythagorean theorem three centuries before Pythagoras. A look at the Śulba Sūtras.