Contributions to the History of Indian Mathematics
Contributions to the History of Indian Mathematics By Gérard G. Emch, R. Sridharan, M. D. Srinivas
English | PDF | 2005 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 8185931585 | 23.65 MB
The first Joint India-AMS meeting in Mathematics was held in Bangalore in December 2003. One of its themes was the "History of Indian Mathematics". Two sessions on this theme were organised jointly by Gerard G. Emch from the D.S., and R. Sridharan from India. These sessions were held on the 18th and the 20th of December. The speakers at these sessions covered a wide spectrum of topics ranging from Vedic Prosody and ancient Buddhist logic at one end to the contributions of Srinivasa Ramanujan and Indian contributions to Quantum Statistics at the other. The lectures were enthusiastically received and it was feIt that a volume based on these lectures in detail might be useful to the mathe- matical community; we thus formed an editorial committee to compile such a volume. Articles were invited from the speakers and were refer- eed. This volume, which is the outcome, begins with an overview 1 of the subject and is divided into three sections.