Publication year: 2006
ISBN: 978-3-7643-7592-8
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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.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Aryabhatiya / Bhaskara / History of mathematics / History of science / Indian mathematics / astronomy