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The Characteristics of Mathematics in Ancient India  

Kim, Jong-Myung (Department of Mathematics Education, Kwandong Univ.)
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Journal for History of Mathematics / v.23, no.1, 2010 , pp. 41-52 More about this Journal
Abstract
Ancient Indian mathematical works, all composed in Sanskrit, usually consisted of a section of sturas in which a set of rules or problems were stated with great economy in verse in order to aid memorization by a student. And rules or problems of the mathematics were transmitted both orally and in manuscript form.Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the decimal number system, arithmetic, equations, algebra, geometry and trigonometry. And many Indian mathematicians were appearing one after another in Ancient. This paper is a comparative study of mathematics developments in ancient India and the other ancient civilizations. We have found that the Indian mathematics is quantitative, computational and algorithmic by the principles, but the ancient Greece is axiomatic and deductive mathematics in character. Ancient India and the other ancient civilizations mathematics should be unified to give impetus to further development of mathematics education in future times.
Keywords
Sanskrit; Sulbas$\bar{u}$tras; Siddh$\bar{a}$nta; Hindu-Arabic numerals;
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