Mahavira's Geometrical Problems: Traces of Unknown Links between Jaina and Mediterranean Mathematics in the Classical Ages

Jens Høyrup

Mahavira's Geometrical Problems: Traces of Unknown Links between Jaina and Mediterranean Mathematics in the Classical Ages

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Abstract

Analysis of the geometrical chapters Mahavira's 9th-century Ganita-sara-sangraha reveals inspiration from several chronological levels of Near-Eastern and Mediterranean mathematics: (1)that known from Old Babylonian tablets, c. 1800-1600 BCE; (2)a Late Babylonian but pre-Seleucid Stratum, probably c. 500 BCE; (3) a type known both from Seleucid cuneiform tablets and from Demotic Egyptian papyri, c. 200 BCE

Originalsprog	Dansk
Titel	History of the Mathematical Sciences
Redaktører	Ivor Grattan-Guinness, B. S. Yadav
Udgivelsessted	New Delhi
Forlag	Hindustan Book Agency
Publikationsdato	2004
Sider	83-95
ISBN (Trykt)	81-85931-45-3
Status	Udgivet - 2004

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