An appraisal of the Greek and Indian approaches in determining the surface area of a sphere

DOI10.18311/JIMS/2018/18897MaRDI QIDQ5139950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 13 December 2020

Published in The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.18311/jims/2018/18897

zbMATH Keywords

pedagogyspheresurface areavolume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of Indian mathematics (01A32) History in mathematics education (97A30)

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