Sanskrit, Math & Astronomy at JLF London 2021 🌌

Kim Plofker in conversation with William Dalrymple


Mathematician Kim Plofker is a leading scholar of the history of maths and astronomy in Sanskrit and other Indian languages. In conversation with William Dalrymple, Plofker chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period, re-examining the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledge, such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals, and sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework. Her work details aspects of the subject that have been largely passed over in the past, including the relationships between Indian mathematics and astronomy, and their cross-fertilisations with Islamic scientific traditions.

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