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The Kaṭapayādi system of numerical notation and its spread outside Kerala

Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (2012)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

While the study of the transmission of scientific ideas from and to India has its own importance, it is also necessary to examine the transmission of ideas within India, from one region to another, from Sanskrit to regional languages and vice versa. This paper attempts to map the spread of the Kaṭapayādi system of numerical notation, widely popular in Kerala, to other parts of India, and shows that this very useful tool of mathematical notation, though well known in northern India, was rarely employed...

The life and work of Zbyněk Šidák (1933–1999)

Jan Seidler, Jiří Vondráček, Ivan Saxl (2000)

Applications of Mathematics

Zbyněk Šidák, the chief editor of the Applications of Mathematics, an outstanding Czech statistician and probabilist, died on November 12, 1999, aged 66 years. This article is devoted to memory of him and outlines his life and scientific work.

The notion of randomness from Aristotle to Poincaré

O. B. Sheynin (1991)

Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines

Aristotle and even earlier scientist and philosophers attempted to define, or at least to through light upon randomness. The author sketches the attempts to direct concept of randomness into the realm of mathematical science from Aristotle up to Poincaré. He dwells on the various interpretations of randomness that were pronounced in natural science and philosophy, and on the interrelation between necessity and randomness.

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