The book is a collection of articles that throws light on 
contributions of anceitn Indians to the science of computing.
Subhash Kak starts with an inspiring introduction and ends
with a powerful chapter on the science of consciousness in
ancient India.

The authors have not only contributed thought-provoking papers,
but also knitted the various articles into a book that is not the
end, but the beginning of future study into a hoary,
mathematical past.

-- Indian Express
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Not only the sign for zero, but also the binary number system,
the
ideas of metarules, algebraic transformation, recursion, hashing,
mathematical logic, formal grammars, and high level language 
description arose first in India.  Indian mathematical science
had already reached dizzying heights about 2500 years ago by the
time of Panini and Pingala, considered by tradition to have been
brothers. Panini's grammar for Sanskrit, which is equivalent in
its computing power to the most powerful computing machine, has
not yet been matched for any other language, while Pingala 
described the binary number system. This classic book of 
contributions by the leading scholars of the world presents
an overview of these seminal contributions.
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Contributors to the volume include Frits Staal (Univ of California,
Berkeley), Barend van Nooten (Univ of California, Berkeley).
Anand Raman (Christchurch), T.R.N. Rao (Univ of Louisiana, Lafayette),
David Frawley (Santa Fe), Subhash Kak (LSU).

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