Early Indians on Second-Order Sine-Differences

K. Ramasubramanian ()
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K. Ramasubramanian: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

A chapter in Gaṇitānanda, 2019, pp 345-351 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The well-known property that the second order differences of sines are proportional to the sines themselves was known even to Āryabhaṭa I (born ad 476) whose Āryabhaṭīya is the earliest extant historical work (of the dated type) containing a sine table.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_34

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