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Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics

B. S. Yadav and Man Mohan, editors
Publisher: 
Birkhäuser
Publication Date: 
2011
Number of Pages: 
217
Format: 
Hardcover
Price: 
99.00
ISBN: 
9780817646943
Category: 
Anthology
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Foreword.- Prelude.- Indian Mathematics in the Medieval Islamic World.- Brahmagupta: the Ancient Indian Mathematician.- Indian Calendrical Calculations.- India’s contributions to Chinese Mathematics up to the Eighth Century A.D..- Some Discussions about how Indian Trigonometry affected Chinese Calendar-Calculation in the Tang Dynasty.- On the Application of Areas in the Sulbasutra.- Indian Mathematical Tradition with special reference to Kerala: Methodology and Motivations.- Mainland South-East Asia as a Crossroad of Chinese and Indian Astronomy.- Mathematical Literature in the Regional Languages of India.- Pascal’s Triangle in 500 BC.- André Weil: His Book on Number Theory and Indian References.- The Algorithm of Extraction in both Greek and Sino-Indian Mathematical Traditions.- Index.