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Mathematics in India does not require that its readers have any background in mathematics or the history of mathematics. [7] It makes scholarship in this area accessible to a general audience, [18] for instance by replacing many Sanskrit technical terms by English phrases, [12] although it is "more of a research monograph than a popular book". [16]
Indian mathematics emerged and developed in the Indian subcontinent [1] from about 1200 BCE [2] until roughly the end of the 18th century CE (approximately 1800 CE). In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Varāhamihira, and Madhava.
Ganita Kaumudi (Sanskrit: गणितकौमदी) is a treatise on mathematics written by Indian mathematician Narayana Pandita in 1356. It was an arithmetical treatise alongside the other algebraic treatise called "Bijganita Vatamsa" by Narayana Pandit .
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The title of the work, bījagaṇita, which literally translates to "mathematics (gaṇita) using seeds (bīja)", is one of the two main branches of mediaeval Indian mathematics, the other being pātīgaṇita, or "mathematics using algorithms".
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Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita (Sanskrit: नारायण पण्डित) (1340–1400 [1]) was an Indian mathematician. Plofker writes that his texts were the most significant Sanskrit mathematics treatises after those of Bhaskara II, other than the Kerala school.
The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near Peshawar in present-day Pakistan, historical Gandhara).