Overview
- Provides pedagogical importance of scholarly work by Bhaskaracarya, a great Indian mathematician
- Highlights the contribution of Bhaskara to astronomy and mathematics through illustrative examples
- Collects selected papers presented at Bhaskara 900 from renowned contributors
Part of the book series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SHMP)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Bhāskarācārya and his poetic genius
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The Bījagaṇita
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The Siddhāntaśiromani: Ganitādhyāya
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The Siddhāntaśiromani: Golādhyāya
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About this book
Reviews
“Students of the mathematics of India will, of course, find much here that is useful, and at least some of the articles will interest more general readers as well.” (Fernando Q. Gouvêa, MAA Reviews, October 13, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
K. RAMASUBRAMANIAN is a professor at the Cell for the Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He holds a doctorate degree in Theoretical Physics, a master’s degree in Sanskrit, and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering—a weird but formidable combination of subjects to do multi-disciplinary research. He was honoured with the coveted title “Vidvat Pravara” by the Shankaracharya of Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Karnataka, India, for completing a rigorous course in Advaita Vedānta (a 14-semester program), in 2003. He is one of the authors who prepared detailed explanatory notes of the celebrated works Gaṇita-yuktibhāṣā (rationales in mathematical astronomy), Tantrasaṅgraha and Karaṇa-paddhati, which bring out the seminal contributions of the Kerala School of Astronomers and Mathematicians. He was conferred the prestigious award of theMahaṛṣi Bādarāyaṇa Vyas Samman by the then President of India, in 2008, and the R. C. Gupta Endowment Lecture Award by the National Academy of Sciences India, in 2010. He is a recipient of several other awards and coveted titles as well. From 2013, he serves as an elected council member of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is also a member of various other national and international bodies.
TAKAO HAYASHI is an emeritus professor of history of science from Doshisha University, Japan. He worked on the Bakhshali manuscript to obtain his PhD from Brown University in 1985. He focused on Indian mathematics history, and specifically the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving Indian text on mathematics. He was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is a recipient of the Salomon Reinach Foundation Prize from French Institute (2001), Publication Prize from Mathematical Society of Japan (2005), and Kuwabara Prize fromthe History of Mathematics Society of Japan (2005). He is a member of American Mathematics Society, the Indian Society for History of Mathematics, the History of Science Society of Japan, and the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies. CLEMENCY MONTELLE is an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She earned her PhD in the History of Mathematics from Brown University, in 2005. She is the joint director of History of Mathematical Sciences in India (HAMSI), a research hub devoted to the study of the astral sciences on the Indian subcontinent. Her research interest lies in the history of mathematics.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bhāskara-prabhā
Editors: K. Ramasubramanian, Takao Hayashi, Clemency Montelle
Series Title: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6034-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Hindustan Book Agency 2019 and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6033-6Published: 29 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6034-3Published: 16 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2196-8810
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 444
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques