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

Jens Høyrup

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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

Original language	Danish
Title of host publication	History of the Mathematical Sciences
Editors	Ivor Grattan-Guinness, B. S. Yadav
Place of Publication	New Delhi
Publisher	Hindustan Book Agency
Publication date	2004
Pages	83-95
ISBN (Print)	81-85931-45-3
Publication status	Published - 2004

Keywords

Jaina matheamtics
links between mathematical cultures

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