📅 18 May 2024
The paper examines Sanskrit verses and mathematical rationales for corrections that accelerate an infinite series for pi.
📅 18 May 2024
Correction terms produced strikingly accurate approximations with fewer terms than the uncorrected alternating series.
📅 18 May 2024
The author distinguishes numerical success from the strength of surviving explanations, avoiding both dismissal and uncritical celebration.
📅 18 May 2024
Madhava's work predates the European association of the series with Gregory and Leibniz, while later traditions developed in different contexts.
📅 22 August 2024
The paper gathers recent scholarship on Madhava's location, works and place within the Kerala school.
📅 22 August 2024
Locating Madhava helps connect texts to teachers, disciples, astronomical practice and regional institutions.
📅 22 August 2024
The biography emphasizes computational procedures rather than reducing Madhava to a precursor of European calculus.
📅 22 August 2024
The exact date records publication of the study, while Madhava's life remains dated only approximately.
📅 13 November 2024
The paper translates Sanskrit verses and compares four procedures used to compute inverse-sine values.
📅 13 November 2024
Kerala astronomers combined approximation, lookup methods and repeated calculation for different ranges of input.
📅 13 November 2024
Jyeshthadeva's procedure for circumference is examined alongside arcsine computation.
📅 13 November 2024
Publishing verses with translations lets readers see how modern notation relates to, but does not replace, the historical text.
