Ancient Indian square roots: an exercise in forensic paleo-mathematics

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.119.08.646MaRDI QIDQ4908563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein

Publication date 6 March 2013

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.119.08.646

zbMATH Keywords

square rootIndiacube rootAryabhataancient Indian mathematicsBakhshali manuscriptdecimal positionIndian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Indian mathematics (01A32)

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