[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981) › c5.s2.3 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c5.s2.3 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c5.s2.3 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.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. - [Previous: c5.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c5.s2.2) - [Next: c5.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c5.s2.4) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c5.s2) ## Linked texts (3) - [Tantrasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.kerala.tantra.tantrasangraha) — Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī 1500, Sanskrit - [Yuktibhāṣā (Gaṇitayuktibhāṣā)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.kerala.golayukti.yuktibhasa) — Jyeṣṭhadeva 1520, Malayalam - [Karaṇapaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.kerala.tantra.karanapaddhati) — Putumana Somayājī 1660, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c5.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c5.s2.3) · Pramāṇa