Brahmagupta's propositions on the perpendiculars of cyclic quadrilaterals

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2012.07.004MaRDI QIDQ714043zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Satyanad Kichenassamy

Publication date 19 October 2012

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2012.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic quadrilateralsgeometryIndiamedieval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Indian mathematics (01A32) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of geometry (51-03)

Review text

It is known to us that the Propositions XII. 28 of Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuta Siddhānta giving the expression of the diagonals which follows from the Propositions XII, 21--27. The purpose of the paper is to extend this analysis to XII, 29--32 that show to determine the lengths of all portions of diagonals and perpendiculars defined by their intersections. Actually the author summerizes propositions XII. 21--28 focusing on the tools which are used in the paper and briefly reviews earlier translations. The analysis of each Propositions is divided into four parts viz. (1) Text and translations, (2) Gloss, (3) Comment, (4) Conclusion. Each section is well written and evolves new ideas.

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