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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 glossed this mathematial chapter of the Aryabhatiya.An english translation of Bhaskara s commentary and a mathematical supplement are presented in two volumes.Subjects treated in Bhaskara s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral tetrahedron to the interest on a loaned capital, from computations on series to an elaborate process to solve a Diophantine equation.This volume contains an introduction and the literal translation.The introduction aims at providing a general background for the translation and is divided in three sections: the first locates Bhaskara s text, the second looks at its mathematical contents and the third section analyzes the relations of the commentary and the treatise.

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• Full title: Expounding the Mathematical Seed. Vol. 1: The Translation
• Subtitle: A Translation of Bhaskara I on the Mathematical Chapter of the Aryabhatiya
• Author: Agathe Keller
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 172
• EAN: 9783764372910
• ISBN: 3764372915
• ID: 01716758
• Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
• Weight: 518 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 165 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. March 2006

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