[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972) › c8.s3.1 # A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c8.s3.1 A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c8.s3.1 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c8.s3.1) It has been demonstrated in detail that Indian mathematics employed, in its search for better results, improved rules of interpolation, by using the second differences and that a particular case, upto the second order, of the more general Newton-Stirling interpolation formula was known to Brahmagupta (\*c\* A.D. 625).³ Following this line of thought, the Kerala astronomer Govindasvāmin (\*c\*. 800-850) has enunciated a set of rules for the computation of intermediary functional values, different formulae being laid down for different augmental intervals: - [Previous: c8.s2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c8.s2.13) - [Next: c8.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c8.s3.2) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c8.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c8.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c8.s3.1) · Pramāṇa