An example of the secant method of iterative approximation in a fifteenth-century Sanskrit text
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Publication:1815804
DOI10.1006/hmat.1996.0026zbMath0860.01010WikidataQ30048694 ScholiaQ30048694MaRDI QIDQ1815804
Publication date: 23 April 1997
Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1996.0026
Bhāskara-I; Govindasvāmin; Mādhava; Mahābhāskarīya; Paramesvara; secant method of iterative approximation; Siddhāntadīpikā
01A32: History of Indian mathematics
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