The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c25.15

c25.15

The outstanding feature of the work, which the author properly emphasises, is the detailed discussion of rectangular, as distinguished from square, matrices. For this reason alone the work ought to give a great stimulus to the subject, and we hope that the publication of the whole treatise will not be long delayed. Until it is finished, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to give a proper appreciation of it, especially as the author introduces so many new symbols and technical terms. One thing, however, is certain; we now have the outlines of a calculus of matrics in which the operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication are definite.—*Nature.*