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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Aryabhata, Bhāskara Ii, Nilakantha Somayaji, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Jyesthadeva, Vasistha, Meghnad Saha, Jayant Narlikar, Thanu Padmanabhan, Parameshvara, Yajnavalkya, Varahamihira, Govind Swarup, J. J. Rawal, Utpala, Śrīpati, Vainu Bappu, Sankara Varman, Mohan Apte, Somnath Bharadwaj, Vatasseri Parameshwaran Nambudiri, Achyuta Pisharati, Agnes Giberne, Ramana Athreya, Gautama Siddha, Kelallur Neelakandhan Somayaji, P. Devadas, Lalla, Jagannatha Samrat, M K Das Gupta, Amil Kumar Das, Sankara Variar, Brahmadeva, Damodara, Kamalakara, Bapudeva Sastri, Mahendra Suri, Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri, Radha Gobinda Chandra, Achyuta Panikkar, Aryabhata Ii, Lagadha. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Aryabhata (IAST: ; Sanskrit: ) (476550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are the Aryabhatiya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-siddhanta. While there is a tendency to misspell his name as "Aryabhatta" by analogy with other names having the "bhatta" suffix, his name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells his name thus, including Brahmagupta's references to him "in more than a hundred places by name". Furthermore, in most instances "Aryabhatta" does not fit the metre either. Aryabhata mentions in the Aryabhatiya that it was composed 3,600 years into the Kali Yuga, when he was 23 years old. This corresponds to 499 CE, and implies that he was born in 476 CE. Aryabhata provides no information about his place of birth. The only information comes from Bhskara I, who describes Aryabhata as makya, "one belonging to the amaka country." While amaka was originally situated in the nort...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=297204 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha's Vedic Mathematics, Bhāskara Ii, Tantrasamgraha, Shulba Sutras, Aryabhata's Sine Table, Madhava's Sine Table, Katapayadi System, Yuktibhasa, Karanapaddhati, Jyesthadeva, Chakravala Method, Jyā, Koti-Jyā and Utkrama-Jyā, Sadratnamala, Śrīpati, Bakhshali Manuscript, C. M. Whish, Brahmasphutasiddhanta, Kātyāyana, Lilavati, Vedic Square, Mahavira, Kos, Manava, Govindasvāmi, Bhaskara's Lemma, Lalla, Pythagorean Approximation, Sridhara, Sankara Narayana, Prthudakasvami. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Indian mathematics also known as Hindu mathematics refers to the mathematics that emerged in the Indian subcontinent, from ancient times until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 AD to 1200 AD), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara II. The decimal number system in use today and the binary number system were first recorded in Indian mathematics. Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number, negative numbers, arithmetic, and algebra. In addition, trigonometry, having evolved in the Hellenistic world and having been introduced into ancient India through the translation of Greek works, was further advanced in India, and, in particular, the modern definitions of sine and cosine were developed there. These mathematical concepts were transmitted to the Middle East, China, and Europe and led to further developments that now form the foundations of many areas of mathematics. Ancient and medieval Indian mathematical works, all composed in Sanskrit, usually consisted of a section of sutras in which a set of rules or problems were stated with great economy in verse in order to aid memorization ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1848052 ... Read more