Expounding the Mathematical Seed, Volume 1: The Translation A Translation of Bhāskara I on the Mathematical Chapter of the Āryabhatīya /

• Main Author: Keller, Agathe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2006.
• Series: Science Networks · Historical Studies ; 30
• Subjects: History.; Mathematics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; History of Science.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

In the 5th century the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (476-499) wrote a small but famous work on astronomy, the Aryabhatiya. This treatise, written in 118 verses, gives in its second chapter a summary of Hindu mathematics up to that time. Two hundred years later, an Indian astronomer called Bhaskara...