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| Title: | Multiplying Integers: on the diverse practices of medieval Sanskrit authors |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | K. Chemla Catherine Morice-singh Comments Of S. R. Sarma T. Kusuba B. Mélès C. Proust Agathe Keller |
| Description: | This is a submitted draft. All comments and suggestion for corrections are welcome.1 We examine the diverse ways Brahmagupta (628 CE), Mahāvīra (ca. 850), Śrīdhara (ca. 750-900) and their commentators understood how a multiplication could be executed. We describe a variety of algorithms. We note how commentators give us clues to how numbers are shaped for execution, how the procedure is displayed on a working surface, etc. We attempt to evaluate in which ways resources of the decimal place value notation were used. The current historiography of elementary operations in Sanskrit sources is also revised along the way. 1The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC Grant agreement n. 269804. We would like to thank the invaluable |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/72590 |
| Other Identifier: | http://hal-univ-diderot.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/04/52/41/PDF/Keller-Morice-Singh24-07-2014.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.635.2450 |
| AMAD ID: | 568377 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
