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082			_a510.954 _bDIV
100			_aDivakaran, P. P.
245			_aMathematics of India : concepts, methods, connections
260			_bHindustan Book Agency _c2018 _aNew Delhi
300			_axi, 441 p. _c25 cm _bill.
365			_b980.00 _cINR _d00
490			_aCulture and History of Mathematics 10
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aHistory
650			_aMathematics
650			_aHistory of Mathematical Sciences
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