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  title info:
    title: Mathematics and society
    sub title: numbers and measures in early modern South India
  name:
    name part: Babu D., Senthil
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
  abstract: This title studies the regional tradition of mathematics in the Tamil-speaking areas of Southern India. It questions the established nature of Indian history of mathematics, which is based only on the Bhatta-Bhaskara tradition. Instead, it brings in practitioners like village accountants and school teachers as primary agents in the practice of mathematics. The author studies these hitherto unexplored historical sources and presents them in a new light. He talks about mathematics at the workplace, at the school, and at the village square in precolonial Tamil society. Finally, the author studies what happened to these practices when encountered by the colonial revenue administration and brings out a social history of mathematics in India.
  table of contents: Introduction : "Fifteen Brahmins and Fifteen Thieves" -- Towards practice : mathematics beyond the canon -- Mathematics of the practitioner -- Memory and mathematics in Tiṇṇai schools -- Mathematics pedagogy for a public : the colonial transition -- Conclusion : mathematics and its images of the public -- Appendix-I : numbers, weights, and measures in the Tamil system -- Appendix-II : a brief note on Tamil numerical notation -- Appendix-III : Ponnilakkam, Nellilkkam, Eṇcuvaṭi -- Appendix-IV : list of text books used for the study.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Senthil Babu D.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    geographic: India, South
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: India, South
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathématiques
    geographic: Inde (Sud)
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: South India
  classification: QA27.I4 B33 2022
  classification: 510.9548
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mathematics and society
    name:
      name part: Babu D., Senthil.
    origin info:
      publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, [2022]
    identifier: (DLC) 2023341395
    identifier: (OCoLC)1332950824
  identifier: 9780190994341
  identifier: 0190994347
  identifier: 9788194831600
  identifier: 8194831601
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 220607
    record change date: 20260318165325.6
    record identifier: in00005698136
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng