Madhava of Sangamagrama
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Madhava of Sangamagrama
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Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (Mādhavan) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who is considered to be the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in the Late Middle Ages. Madhava made pioneering contributions to the study of infinite series, calculus, trigonometry, geometry and algebra. He was the first to use infinite series approximations for a range of trigonometric functions, which has been called the "decisive step onward from the finite procedures of ancient mathematics t
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Indian mathematician and astronomer (c.1340-c.1425)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhava_of_Sangamagrama
date created:
2005-09-29T10:41:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T02:07:55Z
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