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  2. Līlāvatī - Wikipedia

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    Līlāvatī is a treatise by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, [1] alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya. [2] A problem from the Lilavati by Bhaskaracharya. Written in the 12th century.

  3. Indian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Indian mathematics emerged in the Indian subcontinent [ 1 ] from 1200 BCE [ 2 ] until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Varāhamihira, and Madhava. The decimal number system in use today [ 3 ] was ...

  4. Vedic Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-8120801646. OCLC. 217058562. Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Indian Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha and first published in 1965. It contains a list of mathematical techniques which were falsely claimed to contain advanced mathematical knowledge. [1] The book was posthumously published under its deceptive title by editor V ...

  5. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Devanagari numerals are the symbols used to write numbers in the Devanagari script, predominantly used for northern Indian languages. They are used to write decimal numbers, instead of the Western Arabic numerals.

  6. Jayant Narlikar - Wikipedia

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    Jayant Vishnu Narlikar FNA, FASc, FTWAS (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). [1] He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein 's theory of relativity and Mach ...

  7. Bhutasamkhya system - Wikipedia

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    Bhutasamkhya system. The Bhūtasaṃkhyā system is a method of recording numbers in Sanskrit using common nouns having connotations of numerical values. The method was introduced already in astronomical texts in antiquity, but it was expanded and developed during the medieval period. [1][2][3] A kind of rebus system, bhūtasaṃkhyā has also ...

  8. Sanskrit verbs - Wikipedia

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    Rule 7.2.35 states that i should be prepended to ārdhadhātuka suffixes beginning with a consonant other than y; [30] an example of such suffix is -tum (the Classical Sanskrit infinitive). An example of differences between the two classes is the aorist -marker.

  9. Brahmi script - Wikipedia

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    The word Lipī (𑀮𑀺𑀧𑀻) used by Ashoka to describe his "Edicts". Brahmi script (Li= 𑀮 La+ 𑀺 i; pī= 𑀧 Pa+ 𑀻 ii). The word would be of Old Persian origin ("Dipi"). Pāṇini (6th to 4th century BCE) mentions lipi, the Indian word for writing scripts in his definitive work on Sanskrit grammar, the Ashtadhyayi.