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HISTORY OF HINDU MATHEMATICS: A SOURCE BOOK (Part- I-NUMERAL NOTATION AND ARITHMETIC) Volume Part 1st [Hardcover]
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Gyan Publishing House, 2021
ISBN 10 : 8121249716
ISBN 13 : 9788121249713
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Language: English. About the Book:-History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book is a treatise on the history of Indian mathematics. Originally published in two parts in 1930's. Part 1 of the book is divided into chapters. Chapter 1 gives details of the various methods employed by the Hindus for denoting numbers. The chapter also contains details of the gradual evolution of the decimal place value notation in India. Chapter 2 deals with arithmetic in general and it contains the details of various methods for performing the arithmetical operations using a "board". The evolution of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squaring, cubing, and the extraction square root and cube root are all discussed in detail. The whole of Part 2, running to about 307 pages, constitutes just one chapter numbered as Chapter 3 of the book. Some of the topics discussed in this chapter are linear equations with one unknown and with two unknowns, quadratic equations, linear indeterminate equations, solutions of equations of the form Nx2 + 1 = y2, indeterminate equations of higher degrees, and rational triangles. About the Author:- Bibhutibhushan Datta (1888 Ð1958) was a historian of Indian mathematics. He was a student of Ganesh Prasad, studied at University of Calcutta and secured the master's degree in mathematics in 1914 and doctorate degree in 1920 in applied mathematics. He taught at Calcutta University where he was lecturer at University Science College, and during 1924Ð1929 he was Rhashbehari Ghosh Professor of Applied Mathematics. During the 1920s and 1930s he created a reputation as an authority on the history of Indian mathematics. He was also deeply interested in Indian philosophy and religion. In 1929 he retired from his professorship and left the university in 1933, and became a sannyasin (an ascetic, a person who has renounced worldly pleasures) in 1938 under the name Swami Vidyaranya. History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book, written by him jointly with Avadhesh Narayan Singh (1901Ð1954) became a standard reference in the history of Indian mathematics. He also wrote a monograph on the Shulba Sutras. He published more than 70 research papers mostly related to history of Indian mathematics. The Title 'HISTORY OF HINDU MATHEMATICS: A SOURCE BOOK (Part- I-NUMERAL NOTATION AND ARITHMETIC) written/authored/edited by BIBHUTIBHUSAN DATTA, AVADHESH NARAYAN SINGH', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121249713 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 283 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History, Mathematics. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: Volume Part 1st Volume Part 1st 283. N° de réf. du vendeur 1111008973545
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