Say mathematician, how many are the combinations in one composition with ingredients of six different tastes — sweet, pungent, astringent, sour, salt and bitter — taking them by ones, twos, or threes, etc.?
—- From Lilavathi of Bhaskara (the great twelfth century mathematician of India).
— Nalin Pithwa.
PS: Almost all countries/nations have some culture of math just as they do of music and poetry and singing and dancing 🙂 🙂 🙂
