The book Vedic Mathematics (ISBN 978-8120801646) was written by Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja. It describes his Vedic mathematics, a system of mental calculation. Bharati claimed he had found the basis of this system written in the form of sutras in an appendix of Atharvaveda which has now been lost. He developed the system further and wrote sixteen books about it. The manuscript of these books somehow got lost and Jagadguru then wrote the book Vedic Mathematics which was published in 1965, five years after his death.
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