Description

This book is a comprehensive survey of the development of Mathematics and Astronomy in India during the ancient and medieval periods – right from the vedic period to the crowning glory of the Kerala school of Mathematics and Astronomy. The valuable contributions highlighted here are of the vedic lore – including Shulva sutras, Vedanga Jyotisha as also of the siddhantic period by great savants like Aryabhata-I, Bhaskara-I, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Mahaviracharya, Bhaskara-II, Ganesha Daivajna, the Kerala astronomers and Samanta Chandrasekhara Simha. In the Appendices some interesting phenomena related to stars like Agastya, Abhijit, Krittikas etc are included. The book ends with an exhaustive Bibliography to enable the interested readers to go deeper into the subject.