Overview
- Provides an up-to-date, more accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables
- Contains an inventory of all of the identified individual works in this genre
- Includes a glossary of the relevant Sanskrit terms
Part of the book series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SHMP)
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“The book is rich in various technical details from mathematical astronomy that serious students and researchers would benefit from. There is nevertheless a good deal of material that would be accessible to a wider class of readers. … The book under review will no doubt inspire further studies on the topic, serving in particular as a source of technical support for them, and thereby expand the horizons of thetopic.” (S. G. Dani, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2020)
“The authors and the publisher are to be congratulated for bringing to the market and our reference shelves a thorough, well-organized, deeply-researched, and beautifully presented book. … I am by no means qualified to comment on the particulars of the authors’ analyses of the manuscripts they examined. I can say that I enjoyed reading the book and that it broadened my thinking about what mathematics is and what mathematicians do.” (Scott Guthery, MAA Reviews, August 24, 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sanskrit Astronomical Tables
Authors: Clemency Montelle, Kim Plofker
Series Title: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97037-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97036-3Published: 19 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97037-0Published: 07 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2196-8810
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 308
Number of Illustrations: 85 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, History of South Asia