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# Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India

Numerals, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and series from the Śulbasūtras to the Kerala school, quoting the Sanskrit texts.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [A. K. Bag](https://indike.org/pramana/person/bag-ak)
- **Extent:** 2,197 passages, 68,289 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · Chaukhambha Orientalia, Varanasi 1979; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (A. K. Bag); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that copy,…

## Contents

- [c1 Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c1) — 10 parts
- [c2 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c2) — 5 parts
- [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c3) — 16 parts
- [c4 Chapter 1 Scholars of Mathematics](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c4) — 5 parts
- [c5 Chapter II Arithmetic](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c5) — 15 parts
- [c6 Chapter III Geometry](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c6) — 16 parts
- [c7 Chapter IV Algebra](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c7) — 22 parts
- [c8 Chapter V Trigonometry](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c8) — 247 parts
- [c9 Chapter VI Infinitesimal Calculus](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c9) — 73 parts
- [c10 Chapter VII Trend of Indo-Persian/Arabic Literature on Mathematics in the Medieval Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c10) — 44 parts
- [c11 General Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c11) — 319 parts
- [c12 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.bag-1979.c12) — 53 parts

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