Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c5.s2.3

c5.s2.3

But in Kerala truly extraordinary advances were made by a school of astronomer-mathematicians building on the pioneering work of Mādhava of Saṅgamagrāma in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century. He evidently discovered what is called “Gregory’s Series” for π and the power series for sines and cosines associated with Newton and Leibniz.⁶² Mādhava’s work was continued by, and is largely known from the works of, Nīlakaṇṭha, Jyeṣṭhadeva, and Śaṅkara in the sixteenth century, and Putumana in the eighteenth.