An example of the secant method of iterative approximation in a fifteenth-century Sanskrit text

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1996.0026zbMath0860.01010OpenAlexW2058516352WikidataQ30048694 ScholiaQ30048694MaRDI QIDQ1815804

Kim Plofker

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

zbMATH Keywords

Bhāskara-IGovindasvāminMādhavaMahābhāskarīyaParamesvarasecant method of iterative approximationSiddhāntadīpikā

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Indian mathematics (01A32)

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