Ancient Indian Square Roots: An Exercise in Forensic Paleo-Mathematics

DOI10.4169/amer.math.monthly.119.08.646zbMath1264.01007OpenAlexW2398304303MaRDI QIDQ4908563

David 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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