Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics

by B.S. Yadav (Editor)

Foreword.- Prelude.- Indian Mathematics in the Medieval Islamic World.- the Ancient Indian Mathematician.- Indian Calendrical Calculations.- India's contributions to Chinese Mathematics up to the Eighth Century A.D..- Some Discussions about how Indian Trigonometry affected Chinese Calendar-Calculation in the Tang Dynasty.- On the Application of Areas in the Sulbasutra .- Indian Mathematical Tradition with special reference to Methodology and Motivations.- Mainland South-East Asia as a Crossroad of Chinese and Indian Astronomy.- Mathematical Literature in the Regional Languages of India.- Pascal's Triangle in 500 BC.- André His Book on Number Theory and Indian References.- The Algorithm of Extraction in both Greek and Sino-Indian Mathematical Traditions.- Index.

240 pages, Paperback

Published April 7, 2011