Mathematics and society : numbers and measures in early modern South India /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Babu D., Senthil (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Mathematics > India, South > History. Mathematics > Social aspects > India, South > History. Mathématiques > Inde (Sud) > Histoire. Mathematics Mathematics > Social aspects South India Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.