• 15th century in Kerala, India by the mathematician and astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1350 – c. 1425) or his followers in the Kerala school of astronomy...
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    Kerala school was a school of mathematics and astronomy founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Tirur, Malappuram, Kerala, India, which included among its members:...
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    was known before to Newton and Gregory, and in special cases to Madhava of Sangamagrama in fourteenth century India. Nevertheless, Maclaurin received credit...
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  • John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (approximate date; d. 1400) Madhava of Sangamagrama, Indian mathematician (d. 1425) John I Stanley of the Isle of Man...
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    century. Further progress was not made until the 14th century, when Madhava of Sangamagrama developed approximations correct to eleven and then thirteen digits...
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    Aristarchus Aryabhata Bhaskara I Claudius Ptolemy Euclid Hipparchus Madhava of Sangamagrama Ptolemy Pythagoras Regiomontanus Aristarchus's inequality Bhaskara...
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  • Archimedes, Liu Hui, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Madhava of Sangamagrama, Gerolamo Cardano, Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Euler, Fourier, Gauss, Lobachevsky...
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  • 1380: Madhava of Sangamagrama discusses error terms in infinite series in the context of his infinite series for π. 1380: Madhava of Sangamagrama discovers...
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    Trigonometric functions (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Otho. Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1400) made early strides in the analysis of trigonometric functions in terms of infinite series. (See Madhava series...
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    Viète's formula (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the work of Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – 1425), but were not known in Europe until much later. See: Plofker, Kim (2009). "7.3.1 Mādhava on the circumference...
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    Kaumudi. Also in the 14th century, Madhava of Sangamagrama, the founder of the Kerala School of Mathematics, found the Madhava–Leibniz series and obtained from...
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    like Mādhava's sine table. Late medieval practitioners do not map the stand-alone vowels to zero. But, it is sometimes considered valueless. Mādhava's sine...
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    Govinda Bhattathiri, astronomer and astrologer (1237–1295 CE) Madhava of Sangamagrama, mathematician and astronomer, founded Kerala school of astronomy...
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  • the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics was founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Tirur. Some of the contributions of the school included the...
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    "experimental fact" to the Indians and attributed general proofs to Pierre de Fermat and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. Professor Subhash Kak of Louisiana State...
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    Brahmadeva Brahmagupta Govindasvāmi Halayudha Jyeṣṭhadeva Kamalakara Mādhava of Saṅgamagrāma Mahāvīra Mahendra Sūri Munishvara Narayana Parameshvara Achyuta...
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    utilizes existing tables from sources like the Zij-i Ulugh Beg and Philippe de la Hire's astronomical tables. The Zij Muhammad-Shahi essentially adapts these...
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  • Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara I, Mahavira, Bhaskara II, Madhava of Sangamagrama and Nilakantha Somayaji give broader and clearer shape to many...
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  • (c. 200 BCE). Madhava's correction terms – Madhava's correction term is a mathematical expression attributed to Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – c. 1425)...
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  • conferred on Hayashi include: The Salomon Reinach Foundation Prize, Institut de France (2001) Kuwabara Prize, the History of Mathematics Society of Japan...
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    town in Thrissur District, in the Indian state of Kerala, to Pulickel Madhava Panicker, a telephone mechanic, and Radha, a teacher at the local school...
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    specific Taylor series (but not the general method) were given by Madhava of Sangamagrama. Though no record of his work survives, writings of his followers...
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    ISBN 9780521058032. J J O'Connor; E F Robertson. "Mādhava of Sangamagrāma". Biography of Madhava. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of...
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    (which Nilakantha attributes to Madhava of Sangamagrama), cosine, and arctangent which are now sometimes referred to as Madhava series. The series for arctangent...
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    identifying their limitations. During the 14th to 16th centuries, Madhava of Sangamagrama and the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics discovered the...
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    Tughluq in the Battle of Singoli. 1340 Birth of great mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama who goes on to found the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics...
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  • mathematics, at the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. Madhava of Sangamagrama in the 14th century, and later mathematicians of the Kerala school...
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  • Arithmetic), which was translated into Latin in the 13th century as Algorithmi de numero indorum. Through these texts, the decimal number system and Brahmagupta's...
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  • for π was first discovered by 15th-century Indian mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama, but it is named after Gottfried Leibniz after the latter discovered...
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  • edition of Roth, R.; Whitney, W.D., eds. (1856). Atharva Veda Sanhita. Berlin, DE.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Mercay, Jessie...
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