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Pingala

Scholar of prosody

What they did

The Chandah-shastra enumerates metres as binary sequences and gives the halving algorithm, the counting of combinations and the triangle of binomial coefficients — the mathematics computing is built on.

The text

Pingala’s Chandah-shastra

When

Date disputed; placed in the last centuries BCE by most accounts · disputed · disputed
No settled dating; the tradition is older than the surviving commentaries

Where

Unknown or disputed.

Where it maps in modern education

Computer science and computational thinking · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB — Chandah-shastra (combinatorics and binary); Vyakarana (formal rules). Binary enumeration, the halving algorithm, the combinatorial triangle, recursion, ordered rule systems, meta-rules and rule conflict resolution.

Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.