Person
Mahavira (mathematician)
Jain mathematician of the Kannada-speaking south of India in the mid-9th century, also called Mahaviracharya. In the reign of the Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha I, whom he praises in its opening verses, he wrote the Ganitasarasangraha, a manual of arithmetic, algebra and geometry that was widely known in South India and was translated into Telugu verse by Pavuluri Mallana, probably in the 11th century.
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- South Asia
- In the threads
- South Asia (6th–10th c.)
Events
- Mahavira writes the Ganitasarasangrahac. 850 · South Asia