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Baudhayana

c. 800 BCE · Geometry

Vedic priest and author of the Baudhayana Shulba Sutra, the oldest surviving text on geometry. It contains an early statement of what is now called the Pythagorean theorem — centuries before Pythagoras — and a remarkably accurate approximation of the square root of 2, developed for the precise construction of sacrificial altars.

Source: Wikipedia — Baudhayana sutras

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