Some reasearchers who have been trying to show that vedic maths is not maths at all, interviewed well-placed persons working in banks, industries and so on. Most of them said that when Vedic Mathematics was introduced they came to know about it through their children or friends. A section of them said that they were able to teach the contents of the book to their children without any difficulty because the standard was only primary school level.


They said it was recreational and fun, but there was no relevance in calling it as Vedic Mathematics. We are not able to understand why it should be called Vedic Mathematics and we see no Vedas ingrained in it. The sutras are just phrases, they seem to have no mathematical flavour. This book could have been titled “Shortcut to Simple Arithmetical Calculations” and nothing more. Some of them said an amateur must have written the book! Few people felt that the Swamiji would have created these phrases and called them sutras; then he would have sought some help from others and made them ghost-write for him. Whatever the reality what stands in black and white is that the material in the book is of no mathematical value or Vedic value!

We see a lot of controversery regarding the authenticity of the sutras and if they are really found in the vedas. But the point is, whichever way, it seems to work!

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