Mathematics in India

by Kim Plofker

Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledge--such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals--and she sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework. The book details aspects of the subject that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691120676
• ISBN13: 9780691120676
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"