Madhava of Sangamagrama
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c.1340-c.1425) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (Mādhavan)[5] (c. 1340 – c. 1425) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who is considered as 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 to treat their limit-passage to infinity".[1]
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Madhava of Sangamagrama | |
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Born | c. 1340[1][2][3] (or c. 1350[4]) |
Died | c. 1425 (aged 75-85) |
Occupation | Astronomer-mathematician |
Known for | Discovery of power series Expansions of trigonometric Sine, Cosine and Arctangent functions Infinite series summation formulae for π |
Notable work | Golavāda, Madhyāmanayanaprakāra, Veṇvāroha, Sphuṭacandrāpti |
Title | Golavid (Master of Spherics) |
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