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Aryabhata and the Construction of the First Trigonometric Table
Vijay A. Singh, Aneesh Kumar
Few among us would know that the first mention of the sine and the enumeration of the first sine table are to be credited to Aryabhata. The method to generate this relies on the si…
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India and the Calculus of Trigonometric Functions
Vijay A. Singh
We discuss the work of a brilliant line of Mathematicians who lived in central Kerala and starting with its founder Madhava (1350 CE) developed what can best be described as Calcul…