Mathematics in India : 500 BCE-1800 CE.
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...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000 i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | in00000164487 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr |n|---||||| | ||
| 008 | 100809s2008 nju o 000 0 eng d | ||
| 005 | 20240719020846.7 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781400834150 | ||
| 020 | |a 1400834155 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781400834075 | ||
| 020 | |a 1400834074 | ||
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000065314304 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV044145950 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBSZ |b 379316056 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000067096176 | |
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)654029535 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ocn654029535 | ||
| 040 | |a EBLCP |b eng |e pn |c EBLCP |d OCLCQ |d YDXCP |d OCLCQ |d MHW |d OCLCQ |d DEBSZ |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d OCLCQ |d ZCU |d MERUC |d OCLCQ |d OCLCA |d ICG |d OCLCQ |d DKC |d AU@ |d OCLCQ |d OCL |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCL |d OCLCQ | ||
| 043 | |a a-ii--- | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a QA27.I4 | |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 510.954 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Plofker, Kim. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Mathematics in India : |b 500 BCE-1800 CE. |
| 260 | |a Princeton : |b Princeton University Press, |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (372 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Mathematics in India; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Mathematical Thought in Vedic India; Chapter 3. Mathematical Traces in the Early Classical Period; Chapter 4. The Mathematical Universe; Chapter 5. The Genre of Medieval Mathematics; Chapter 6. The Development of "Canonical" Mathematics; Chapter 7. The School of Madhava in Kerala; Chapter 8. Exchanges with the Islamic World; Chapter 9. Continuity and Changes in the Modern Period; Appendix A. Some Basic Features of Sanskrit Language and Literature. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix B. Biographical Data on Indian MathematiciansBibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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 have been largely passed over in the past, including the relationships between Indian mathematics and astronomy, and their cross-fertilizations with Islamic sc. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 590 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b Ebook Central University Press Subscription | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematics |z India |v Bio-bibliography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematics |z India |x History. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Plofker, Kim. |t Mathematics in India : 500 BCE-1800 CE. |d Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008 |z 9780691120676 |
| 852 | |b E-Collections |h ProQuest | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=557154 |z Full text (MCPHS users only) |t 0 |
| 936 | |a BATCHLOAD | ||
| 938 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b EBLB |n EBL557154 | ||
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 3408425 | ||
| 947 | |a FLO |x pq-ebc-base | ||
| 999 | f | f | |s 6b7f2ae0-bf33-4d56-9396-9c7185908c53 |i 22a7c6db-d9ae-431c-bb74-579886a0ae6b |t 0 |
| 952 | f | f | |a Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences |b Online |c Online |d E-Collections |t 0 |e ProQuest |h Other scheme |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |t 0 |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=557154 |y Full text (MCPHS users only) |
