Casting aside the usual Eurocentric theories about the origins of mathematics, the authors investigate Vedic texts which originated in ancient India. Aryabhatta, Sulvastrus, and Bhaskaracharya are among the Sanskrit-speaking theoreticians, whose astronomical works contributed to the ancient body of mathematics, preceding the Greeks. This book deals with some of the chronological difficulties in tracing the history of mathematics, as well as the reasons for the decay in the ancient Vedic civilization.
- ISBN10 0761817379
- ISBN13 9780761817376
- Publish Date 26 July 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104
- Language English