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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9789386279699 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
510.954 |
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DIV |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Divakaran, P. P. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mathematics of India : concepts, methods, connections |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Hindustan Book Agency |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2018 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xi, 441 p. |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
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ill. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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980.00 |
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INR |
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| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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Culture and History of Mathematics 10 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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This book identifies three of the exceptionally fruitful periods of the millennia-long history of the mathematical tradition of India: the very beginning of that tradition in the construction of the now-universal system of decimal numeration and of a framework for planar geometry; a classical period inaugurated by Aryabhata’s invention of trigonometry and his enunciation of the principles of discrete calculus as applied to trigonometric functions; and a final phase that produced, in the work of Madhava, a rigorous infinitesimal calculus of such functions. The main highlight of this book is a detailed examination of these critical phases and their interconnectedness, primarily in mathematical terms but also in relation to their intellectual, cultural and historical contexts. Recent decades have seen a renewal of interest in this history, as manifested in the publication of an increasing number of critical editions and translations of texts, as well as in an informed analytic interpretation of their content by the scholarly community. |
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History |
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Mathematics |
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History of Mathematical Sciences |
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Books |