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293:, both meaning "the logical principles implied". It is characteristic of Western scientific tradition, from the times of Euclid and Aristotle up to modern times, to enunciate and deduce using step-by-step reasoning. Such a practice is almost absent in the Indian tradition, even though the same background tasks, of collecting and correlating data, identifying and analyzing methodologies, and arguing out possible answers have to be gone through before arriving at results. 525:: "The late K. V. Sarma, whose efforts more than of anyone else brought the main texts of Kerala mathematics and astronomy to the attention of the scholarly world, had completed (in association with M. D. Srinivas, M. S. Sriram and K. Ramasubramanian) an English translation of both parts of YB at the time of his death in January 2005, but it is yet to appear." 93: 41: 428: 443:. Prof. Sarma himself was the first director, with Dr Mamata Mishra as secretary and Dr Achyuta Bhat as librarian. The foundation houses approximately 10,000 books, 2000 journals and 900 manuscripts. At the time of writing (2020) the director is Prof. Siniruddha Dash, retired professor of Sanskrit at the 420:
A complete bibliography of the writings of K. V. Sarma on Indian culture, science and literature was compiled by S. A. S. Sarma and published by Sri Sarada Education Society Research Centre, Adyar, Chennai, in 2000. This runs to about 60 pages. The bibliography is available at the following link:
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LÄ«lāvatÄ« of Bhāskarācārya with KriyākramakarÄ« of Śaį¹…kara and Nārāyaį¹‡a. Being an Elaborate Exposition of the Rationale of Hindu Mathematics. Critically edited with Introduction and Appendices
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During the last decade of his life, Prof. Sarma began to convert his personal library into an institution. At first it was called Sree Sarada Education Society, but was later renamed the
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Sarma's father, Sri S. Krishna Aiyer, was an inspector of schools. Sarma studied chemistry and physics at Maharaja's College of Science in
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Sarma became acting-director of Vishveshvaranand Research Institute in 1975, and director/professor in 1978 when he was awarded
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He retired from Panjab University in 1980, but the next year accepted the position of honorary professor of Sanskrit at the
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assimilated the institute, and Sarma became a lecturer in Sanskrit with the university. He was named reader in 1972.
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Sarma was the author of more than 60 books, and 145 research papers, in addition to other academic writing on
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Yuktibhāį¹£Ä of Jyeį¹£į¹­hadeva: A book on rationales in Indian Mathematics and Astronomyā€”An analytic appraisal
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Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures
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Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
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Divakaran, P. P. (8 December 2007), "The First Textbook of Calculus: Yuktibhāį¹£Ä",
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recounted the development of astronomy associated with Kerala. In the preface of
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Maharaja's College of Science and Maharaja's College of Arts, Thiruvananthapuram
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S. G. Kantawala, "K.V. Sarma: An Academic Profile" in S. A. S. Sarma (2000)
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He died on 13 January 2005, having just completed English translations (see
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Rationale in Hindu mathematics and astronomy is expressed by the terms
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In 1962 he became curator of the Vishveshvaranand Research Institute,
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at Madras university also proved to be of great help in my work."
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A Bibliography of Kerala and Kerala-based Astronomy and Astrology
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipients in Mathematical Science
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in 1951 as research assistant in the New Catalogues Project,
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Sarma then provides the exceptions: five commentaries, the
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Infinite series expansions for the trigonometric functions
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Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
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Critical Evidence to Fix the Native Place of ĀryabhatĢŸa-I
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Science Texts in Sanskrit in Manuscripts Repositories of
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New Catalogus Cataloguum of Sanskrit Works and Authors
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Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics
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Oriental Research Institute & Manuscripts Library
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Complete bibliography of the writings of K. V. Sarma
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Grahacaranibandhana: A Parahita manual by Haridatta
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In 1944 he began his work with 25: 1457:Harish-Chandra Research Institute 967:K. R. Parthasarathy (probabilist) 671:. 1 December 2017. Archived from 1498:Indian historians of mathematics 399:Observational Astronomy in India 233:. Sarma took an interest in the 91: 441:K. V. Sarma Research Foundation 435:K. V. Sarma Research Foundation 393:Indian National Science Academy 1513:20th-century Indian historians 1442:Chennai Mathematical Institute 811:Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri 534:K. Chandra Hari (25 Oct 2007) 1: 1432:Indian Statistical Institute 501:Journal of Indian Philosophy 1518:University of Kerala alumni 1452:Indian Institute of Science 1437:Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana 1315:A. A. Krishnaswamy Ayyangar 1280:Shankar Balakrishna Dikshit 1207:Hinduā€“Arabic numeral system 556:Bibliography of K. V. Sarma 1534: 947:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 404:1991: (with S. Hariharan) 387:1976: (with K. S. Shukla) 151:(1919ā€“2005) was an Indian 149:Krishna Venkateswara Sarma 957:Veeravalli S. Varadarajan 514:10.1007/s10781-007-9029-1 142: 121: 38: 1373:Henry Thomas Colebrooke 962:S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan 641:Ludwik Sternbach (1978) 466:"Tribute to scholarship" 389:Āryabhaį¹­Ä«ya of Āryabhaį¹­a 231:A Vedic Word Concordance 1493:Historians of astronomy 846:Mādhava of Saį¹…gamagrāma 137:History of mathematics 1057:Brāhmasphuį¹­asiddhānta 426:Complete Bibliography 327:, published in 2003. 197:palm-leaf manuscripts 33:K. Venkateswara Sarma 1333:T. A. Saraswati Amma 1044:Bakhshali manuscript 1012:Kannan Soundararajan 445:University of Madras 354:Some important works 220:University of Madras 133:History of astronomy 1409:Islamic mathematics 1368:Walter Eugene Clark 1162:Vasishtha Siddhanta 1134:Siddhānta Shiromani 1113:Paitamaha Siddhanta 992:Tilak Raj Prabhakar 937:Satyendra Nath Bose 932:Srinivasa Ramanujan 886:Nilakantha Somayaji 348:Nilakantha Somayaji 159:, particularly the 901:Gangesha Upadhyaya 722:Indian mathematics 675:on 1 December 2017 332:Ganita-yukti-bhasa 303:Ganita-yukti-bhasa 218:department of the 189:Thiruvananthapuram 1480: 1479: 1286:Sudhakara Dvivedi 1106:Paulisa Siddhanta 1025: 1024: 881:Jagannatha Samrat 876:Achyuta Pisharati 595:978-0-7923-4066-9 274:Research Center. 265:Doctor of Letters 243:Panjab University 214:Sarma joined the 209:textual criticism 193:Kerala University 146: 145: 123:Scientific career 58:December 22, 1919 16:(Redirected from 1525: 1120:Romaka Siddhanta 1002:Akshay Venkatesh 972:M. S. Narasimhan 942:P.C. Mahalanobis 735: 715: 708: 701: 692: 685: 684: 682: 680: 659: 653: 639: 633: 628:Bulletin of the 617: 608: 605: 599: 598: 576: 570: 565: 559: 552: 543: 532: 526: 524: 495: 489: 488: 486: 484: 461: 410:Internet Archive 237:and assembled a 95: 79: 76:January 13, 2005 57: 55: 43: 29: 21: 1533: 1532: 1528: 1527: 1526: 1524: 1523: 1522: 1483: 1482: 1481: 1476: 1424: 1418: 1382: 1356: 1327:C. T. 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A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy

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