{"id":79,"date":"2020-08-02T02:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulofmathematics.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T10:16:27","slug":"the-hemchandra-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulofmathematics.com\/index.php\/the-hemchandra-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hemchandra Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Mathematics in early days was seen as some kind of tool to make particular art forms perfect and in sync with nature. Now here comes the story of perfecting the art of poetry from 11th century India. Acharya Hemchandra Suri born in 1088 AD was a prodigy in himself to have expanded in vast fields like Grammar, Poetry, Lexicography, and most famously Mathematics. As we are particularly interested in mathematics I must acknowledge his enormous achievement in this area. Hemchandra described the Fibonacci sequence in 1150 AD fifty years before Fibonacci himself. He was  considering a sequence of notes of length n, and he showed that these could be formed &nbsp;by adding a short syllable to a note of length&nbsp;<em>n<\/em>&nbsp;\u2212&nbsp;1, or a long syllable to one of&nbsp;<em>n<\/em>&nbsp;\u2212&nbsp;2. The recursion relation F(n)= F(n-1) +F(n-1) represents the Fibonacci sequence. Hemchandra studied the rhythms of Sanskrit poetry. Syllables in Sanskrit are either long or short. Long syllables have twice the length of short syllables. The question he asked is &#8216;How many rhythm patterns with a given total length can be formed from short and long syllables?&#8217; And this led to a revolution of beats and rhythms and even mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/soulofmathematics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Su-event-790px.png?resize=790%2C590&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/soulofmathematics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Su-event-790px.png?w=790&amp;ssl=1 790w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/soulofmathematics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Su-event-790px.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/soulofmathematics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Su-event-790px.png?resize=768%2C574&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><em>In the sunflower, individual<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>flowers are arranged along<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>curved lines which rotate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>clockwise and counterclockwise.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Credits:<\/em> <em>The Fibonacci sequence in phyllotaxis<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2013 Laura Resta (Degree Thesis in Bio-mathematics)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/soulofmathematics.com\/index.php\/home-mathematics\/all-posts\/\">All Posts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematics in early days was seen as some kind of tool to make particular art forms perfect and in sync with nature. Now here comes the story of perfecting the art of poetry from 11th century India. Acharya Hemchandra Suri born in 1088 AD was a prodigy in himself to have expanded in vast fields like Grammar, Poetry, Lexicography, and most famously Mathematics. As we are particularly interested in mathematics I must acknowledge his enormous achievement in this area. Hemchandra described the Fibonacci sequence in 1150 AD fifty years before Fibonacci himself. He was considering a sequence of notes of length n, and he showed that these could be formed &nbsp;by adding a short syllable to a note of length&nbsp;n&nbsp;\u2212&nbsp;1, or a long syllable to one of&nbsp;n&nbsp;\u2212&nbsp;2. The recursion relation F(n)= F(n-1) +F(n-1) represents the Fibonacci sequence. Hemchandra studied the rhythms of Sanskrit poetry. Syllables in Sanskrit are either long or short. Long syllables have twice the length of short syllables. The question he asked is &#8216;How many rhythm patterns with a given total length can be formed from short and long syllables?&#8217; And this led to a revolution of beats and rhythms and even mathematics. In the sunflower, individual flowers are arranged along curved lines which rotate clockwise and counterclockwise. Credits: The Fibonacci sequence in phyllotaxis. \u2013 Laura Resta (Degree Thesis in Bio-mathematics)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sneak-peeks"],"featured_image_src":"","blog_images":{"medium":"","large":""},"ams_acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Hemchandra Sequence - SOUL OF MATHEMATICS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soulofmathematics.com\/index.php\/the-hemchandra-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hemchandra Sequence - SOUL OF MATHEMATICS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mathematics in early days was seen as some kind of tool to make particular art forms perfect and in sync with nature. 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