Mathematics in India

Mathematics in India

by Kim Plofker

2009
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"Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledge - such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals - and she sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework. The book details aspects of the subject that have been largely overlooked in the past, including the relationships between Indian mathematics and astronomy, and their cross-fertilizations with Islamic scientific traditions. Plofker shows that Indian mathematics appears not as a disconnected set of discoveries, but as a lively, diverse, yet strongly unified discipline, intimately linked to other Indian forms of learning."--BOOK JACKET.

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