Expounding the mathematical seed

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: ; Vol 2. | Science networks-Historical studies; 30-31Publication details: Basel, Birkhauser Verlag: 2006.Description: xi, 240p. : illSubject(s): Other classification:
  • B9wD47 P6.2 TB
Summary: In the 5th century, the Indian mathematician Aryabhata wrote a small but famous work on astronomy in 118 verses called the Aryabhatiya. Its second chapter gives a summary of Hindu mathematics up to that point, and 200 years later, the Indian astronomer Bhaskara glossed that chapter. Volume 1 of this work was an English translation of Bhaskara’s commentary, and this volume contains explanations for each verse commentary translated in volume 1.
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Textbook Textbook Central Science Library Central Science Library B9wD47 P6.2 TB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available {A translation of Bhaskara I on the mathematical chapter of the Aryabhatiya} SL1378970

Appendix 186-195p.; Glossary 197-226p; Bibliography 227-223p.; Index 235-240p.

In the 5th century, the Indian mathematician Aryabhata wrote a small but famous work on astronomy in 118 verses called the Aryabhatiya. Its second chapter gives a summary of Hindu mathematics up to that point, and 200 years later, the Indian astronomer Bhaskara glossed that chapter. Volume 1 of this work was an English translation of Bhaskara’s commentary, and this volume contains explanations for each verse commentary translated in volume 1.

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