Geometrical Representation of Arithmetic Series – Bibliography, Acknowledgments, About the Author

Bibliography

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Līlāvatī of Bhāskaracārya, V.A. Apte (ed.), Anandāśrama Sanskrit Series No. 107, Pune, 2007.

Pāṭīgaṇita of Śrīdharacārya, with an ancient Sanskrit commentary, K.S. Shukla (ed.), Lucknow University, 1959.

Gaṇitakaumudī by Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita, P. Dvivedī (ed.), Sarasvati Bhavana Texts 57, Benares, 1942.

Plofker, Kim, Mathematics in India, Princeton University Press, 2008.

Acknowledgments

This project was supported by an History of Astronomical and Mathematical Sciences in India  - Chennai Mathematical Institute (HAMSI-CMI) International Fellowship, History of Mathematics Season, Nov.–Dec. 2014. I am thankful also to Clemency Montelle, Kim Plofker, and Glen Van Brummelen for their inspiration to create teaching material.

About the Author

Gautami Bhowmik is a number theorist at the Université de Lille, France (Laboratoire Painlevé, LABEX-CEMPI, Université Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France). She spent the 2013-14 academic year at the Laboratoire SPHERE (Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire), UMR 7219, Université Paris 7, on a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) delegation to work on Sanskrit texts. During November and December of 2014, she participated in the annual "History of Mathematics Season" sponsored by the History of Astronomical and Mathematical Sciences in India (HAMSI) program, carrying out research projects in history of Indian mathematics at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, India, with historians of mathematics Clemency Montelle, Kim Plofker, and Glen Van Brummelen.