TALK. Some reflections on the practices of proofs in Sanskrit mathematical texts
Some reflections on the practices of proofs in Sanskrit mathematical texts, with a special emphasis on Śaṅkara Vāriyar’s work on Mādhava’s procedure to approximate the circumference of a circle.
Please join us for the next talk for the online CHSTM series History of Science in Early South Asia this Monday, at 10am EDT. Agthe Keller (Sphere, CNRS / Université Paris Cité) will be talking about:
Some reflections on the practices of proofs in Sanskrit mathematical texts, with a special emphasis on Śaṅkara Vāriyar’s work on Mādhava’s procedure to approximate the circumference of a circle.
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