Indian Mathematics c8.1

c8.1

19. We have, in the above notes, given in outline the historically important matters relating to Indian mathematics. For points of detail the works mentioned in the annexed bibliography should be consulted ; but we here briefly indicate the other contents of the Indian works, and in the following sections we shall refer to certain topics that have achieved a somewhat fictitious importance, to the personalities of the Indian mathematicians and to the relations between the mathematics of the Chinese, the Arabs and the Indians.