Joseph, George Gheverghese
Indian Mathematics: Engaging With The World From Ancient To Modern Times - Indian Reprint - Singapore World Scientific 2022 - xix, 489 p.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-477) and index
Chapter 1: Rewriting the history of India
Chapter 2: Indian Mathematics in World
Chapter 3: The Harappa - Vedic Nexus
Chapter 4: From Zero to Infinity
Chapter 5: Down to Earth and Reach for the Stars
Chapter 6: Heralding the Golden Age
Chapter 7: Riding the Crest of Wave
Chapter 8: The 500 Year Climax
Chapter 9: Navigating the Ocean of Mathematics
Chapter 10: A Passage to Infinity
Chapter 11: Indian Trignomentry
Chapter 12: Outside the Sanskrit Tradition
Chapter 13: Battle for the Mind
Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context. It builds on research into the connection between mathematics and the world-wide advancement of economics and technology. Joseph draws out parallel developments in other cultures and carefully examines the transmission of mathematical ideas across geographical and cultural borders. Accessible to those who have an interest in the global history of mathematical ideas, for the historians, philosophers and sociologists of mathematics, it is a book not to be missed.
9781944660307 (PB)
Harappa
Bharkaracharya
Kerala school
Western mathematics
51 / JOS
Indian Mathematics: Engaging With The World From Ancient To Modern Times - Indian Reprint - Singapore World Scientific 2022 - xix, 489 p.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-477) and index
Chapter 1: Rewriting the history of India
Chapter 2: Indian Mathematics in World
Chapter 3: The Harappa - Vedic Nexus
Chapter 4: From Zero to Infinity
Chapter 5: Down to Earth and Reach for the Stars
Chapter 6: Heralding the Golden Age
Chapter 7: Riding the Crest of Wave
Chapter 8: The 500 Year Climax
Chapter 9: Navigating the Ocean of Mathematics
Chapter 10: A Passage to Infinity
Chapter 11: Indian Trignomentry
Chapter 12: Outside the Sanskrit Tradition
Chapter 13: Battle for the Mind
Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context. It builds on research into the connection between mathematics and the world-wide advancement of economics and technology. Joseph draws out parallel developments in other cultures and carefully examines the transmission of mathematical ideas across geographical and cultural borders. Accessible to those who have an interest in the global history of mathematical ideas, for the historians, philosophers and sociologists of mathematics, it is a book not to be missed.
9781944660307 (PB)
Harappa
Bharkaracharya
Kerala school
Western mathematics
51 / JOS