Mathematics in India
By Kim Plofker
Hardcover
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By Kim Plofker
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Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledgesuch as the Indian origin of Arabic numeralsand she sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework. The book details aspects of the subject that have been largely passed over in the past, including the...


