This volume is a reprint of the Transition Series of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla which was earlier published in 1976. It aims at forming ‘an intelligent understanding of the Historical and sociological forces that formed the natur…
This book mainly focuses on the life and contribution of Acarya Varamihira, one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the ‘Golden Age of Mathematics’ in India (from 5th to 12th Century AD), to the discipline. Since Varamihira, following the a…