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Among the fragements of Eastern science, with which the learning and zeal of the Western scholars in India have enriched the literature of the West, none perhaps were ever more deserving the attention than those by this work, namely four different treatises, in Sanskrit Verse, on the Arithmatic, Algebra and Geometry, of ancient India.Two of these treatises, the Lilavati and Vija Ganita, are the works of Bhaskaracharya. The other two books are still more ancient ...
Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanskrit of Brahmagupta and Bhaskara was one of the earliest fruits of the European encounter with the scientific heritage of India. While many of the other books of this period became dated and are now merely historical curiosities, Colebrooke’s work remains as useful today as when it appeared first in 1817. this work contains English translations of two classics of Indian mathematics, namely Bhaskara’s ...