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Social origins of the Kerala School

A Passage to Infinity: Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact

Author	George Gheverghese Joseph
Language	English
Subject	History of mathematics
Publisher	SAGE India
Publication date	November 2009
Pages	323
ISBN	978-8132101680

A Passage to Infinity: Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact^[1]^[2]^[3] is a 2009 book byGeorge Gheverghese Joseph chronicling the social and mathematical origins of theKerala school of astronomy and mathematics. The book discusses the highlights of the achievements ofKerala school and also analyses the hypotheses and conjectures on the possible transmission of Kerala mathematics toEurope.

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Introduction
The Social Origins of theKerala School
The Mathematical Origins of theKerala School
The Highlights ofKerala Mathematics andAstronomy
Indian Trigonometry: From Ancient Beginnings toNilakantha
Squaring the Circle: The Kerala Answer
Reaching for the Stars: ThePower Series forSines andCosines
Changing Perspectives onIndian Mathematics
Exploring Transmissions: A Case Study of Kerala Mathematics
A Final Assessment

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^Joseph, George Gheverghese (2009).A Passage to Infinity : Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact. Delhi: Sage Publications (Inda) Pvt. Ltd. p. 236.ISBN 978-81-321-0168-0.
^Plofker, Kim (21 December 2015)."A Passage to Infinity: Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact".Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science.10:56–62.doi:10.33137/aestimatio.v10i0.26020.ISSN 1549-4497.
^Sriram, M.S. (2011)."Book Review: A Passage to Infinity—Medieval Indian Mathematics and Its Impact".Indian Historical Review.38 (2):247–250.doi:10.1177/037698361103800207.ISSN 0376-9836.S2CID 149427309.

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In association with theRoyal Society's 350th anniversary celebrations in 2010, Asia House presented a talk based onA Passage to Infinity. See :"A Passage to Infinity: Indian Mathematics in World Mathematics". Retrieved3 May 2010.
For an audio-visual presentation of George Gheverghese Joseph's views on the ideas presented in the book, see :Joseph, George Gheverghese (16 September 2008)."George Gheverghese Joseph on the Transmission to Europe of Non-European Mathematics".The Mathematical Association of America.Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved3 May 2010.
The Economic Times talks to George Gheverghese Joseph onThe Passage to Infinity. See :Lal, Amrith (23 April 2010)."Indian mathematics loved numbers".The Economic Times.
Review of "A PASSAGE TO INFINITY: Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and its impact" by M. Ram Murty in Hardy-Ramanujan Journal, 36 (2013), 43–46.
Nair, R. Madhavan (3 February 2011)."In search of the roots of mathematics".The Hindu. Retrieved15 October 2014.

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Scientists	Ajit Varki C. V. Subramanian Dileep George E. C. George Sudarshan G. Madhavan Nair George Varghese K. R. Ramanathan K. Radhakrishnan M. G. K. Menon Matthew Pothen Thekaekara P. N. Vinayachandran Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty Pulickel Ajayan R. S. Krishnan Sainudeen Pattazhy T. A. Venkitasubramanian Thanu Padmanabhan Thomas Zacharia Vainu Bappu Varghese Mathai Vinod Scaria
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