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Livres anciens et modernes

Bibhutibhusan Datta, Avadhesh Narayan Singh

HISTORY OF HINDU MATHEMATICS: A SOURCE BOOK (Part- I-NUMERAL NOTATION AND ARITHMETIC, Part- II- ALGEBRA) Volume in 2 parts

Gyan Publishing House, 2021

55,04 €

Gyan Books Pvt Ltd

(Delhi, Inde)

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Année
2021
ISBN
1111007408687
Auteur
Bibhutibhusan Datta, Avadhesh Narayan Singh
Pages
621
Volume
Volume in 2 parts
Éditeurs
Gyan Publishing House
Thème
History, Mathematics
Description
Paperback
Langues
Anglais
Reliure
Couverture souple
Print on demand
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About the Book:-History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book is a treatise on the history of Indian mathematics. Originally published in two parts in 1930's. Part 1 of the book is divided into chapters. Chapter 1 gives details of the various methods employed by the Hindus for denoting numbers. The chapter also contains details of the gradual evolution of the decimal place value notation in India. Chapter 2 deals with arithmetic in general and it contains the details of various methods for performing the arithmetical operations using a "board". The evolution of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squaring, cubing, and the extraction square root and cube root are all discussed in detail. The whole of Part 2, running to about 307 pages, constitutes just one chapter numbered as Chapter 3 of the book. Some of the topics discussed in this chapter are linear equations with one unknown and with two unknowns, quadratic equations, linear indeterminate equations, solutions of equations of the form Nx2 + 1 = y2, indeterminate equations of higher degrees, and rational triangles.
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