Cognition of the circle in ancient India
History and Overview
2017-03-29 v1
Abstract
We discuss the understanding of geometry of the circle in ancient India, in terms of enunciation of various principles, constructions, applications etc. during various phases of history and cultural contexts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.09645,
title = {Cognition of the circle in ancient India},
author = {S. G. Dani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09645},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
18 pages; a Russian translation of the article, by Galina Sinkevich, has been published in Mathematics in Higher Education 14 (2016), 61 - 76