After marking International Yoga Day and a Sanskrit conference at the UNESCO, India is all set to sponsor a conference on ancient Indian contribution to mathematics in Paris beginning Monday.
Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani will lead the Indian delegation at the “International Conference of Zero”, and gift a bronze bust of Aryabhata to the UNESCO headquarters.
“The UNESCO is a fantastic global forum to showcase India’s soft power, whether it is maths and science or the arts, or whether it is yoga,” India’s Ambassador to UNESCO Ruchira Kamboj told The Hindu , explaining that the conference was expected to “showcase Indian contribution to maths and sciences which the world doesn’t know too much about”.
The conference will see a keynote address by Manjul Bhargava, the Canadian-born professor of Indian origin who won the Fields medal in 2014.
There will also be discussions on the links between mathematics and other applied sciences.
