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Govindasvāmin (9th century) quoted a passage also found in Pāṭīgaṇita-sāra, and overlapping material is found in the work of Mahāvīra (9th century), from which historians estimate Śrīdhara to have lived in the 8th or early 9th century. [3] He has sometimes been conflated with other medieval Indian scholars also named Śrīdhara. [1]
Mahāvīra (or Mahaviracharya, "Mahavira the Teacher") was a 9th-century Indian Jain mathematician possibly born in Mysore, in India. [1] [2] [3] He authored Gaṇita-sāra-saṅgraha (Ganita Sara Sangraha) or the Compendium on the gist of Mathematics in 850 CE. [4] He was patronised by the Rashtrakuta emperor Amoghavarsha. [4]
The decimal number system in use today [3] was first recorded in Indian mathematics. [4] Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number, [5] negative numbers, [6] arithmetic, and algebra. [7] In addition, trigonometry [8] was further advanced in India, and, in particular, the modern definitions of ...
The book concludes with a collection of still-unresolved major research questions in the area of Indian mathematics. [14] Two appendices cover aspects of Sanskrit grammar and prosody that are important for understanding Indian mathematics, a glossary of technical terms, and a collection of biographies of Indian mathematicians.
Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit. pp. 37– 62. Bryant, Edwin (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195137774. Cooke, Roger (2005) [First published 1997]. The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-471-44459-6. Datta, Bibhutibhushan ...
Academic work; Era: Maurya or post-Maurya: Main interests: Sanskrit prosody, Indian mathematics, Sanskrit grammar: Notable works: Author of the "Chandaḥśāstra" (also called Pingala-sutras), the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody. Creator of Pingala's formula. Notable ideas: mātrāmeru, binary numeral system.
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar [a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician.Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then ...
Manava (c. 750 BC – 690 BC) is an author of the Hindu geometric text of Sulba Sutras.. The Manava Sulbasutra is not the oldest (the one by Baudhayana is older), nor is it one of the most important, there being at least three Sulbasutras which are considered more important.