About statistics as a discipline in India.
Betwixt Jesuit and Enlightenment Historiography: Jean-Sylvain Bailly’s History of Indian Astronomy
The crystallization of scientific disciplines in late eighteenth-century Europe was accompanied by the proliferation of specialist histories of science. These histories were framed as much by the imperatives of the astronomy of the times as they were by the compulsions of disciplinary differentiation. This paper attempts to contextualise the engagement with the astronomy of India in the histories of astronomy authored in the eighteenth century by the astronomer Jean-Sylvain Bailly. While Bailly’s...
Learning Indian arithmetic in the early thirteenth century.
Matematika ve staré Indii [Book]
Počítání se zlomky ve středověké Indii
Rituální geometrie védských Indů jako inspirace pro učitele matematiky
The Śulba sūtras, or "Rules of the cord", are intended to lay down the rules of demarcation of various sacrificial altars, pandals and places for sacred fire. This part of Vedic culture contains unique, just about three thousand years old ritual geometry. Constructions, such as addition or subtraction of squares or area-preserving transformations of figures, are performed with the use of a rope and wooden poles. This article presents some of the geometric rules described in the mentioned texts and...
Středověký zrod trigonometrických veličin
The Kaṭapayādi system of numerical notation and its spread outside Kerala
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...
Über die bei verschiedenen Völkern üblichen Systeme von Zahlzeichen und über den Ursprung des Stellenwerthes in indischen Zahlen.
Zápisy čísel ve starověké Indii
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