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Dear Mallu author,
It was nice to read about Prof. Dinakaran
There’s no mention of his iconic book and the publication.
To attract readers, resorting to words like Sheva driven etc is cringe. Not mentioning other prolific mathematicians who have brought about a change like Prof Ramasubramanian, is shameful.
His primary focus was on the history of mathematics in India, particularly the Kerala School of Mathematics from the 15th and 16th centuries.
He dedicated significant research to the work of the mathematician-astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama and his contributions to calculus, which predated the work of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Dear Mallu author,
It was nice to read about Prof. Dinakaran
There’s no mention of his iconic book and the publication.
To attract readers, resorting to words like Sheva driven etc is cringe. Not mentioning other prolific mathematicians who have brought about a change like Prof Ramasubramanian, is shameful.
His primary focus was on the history of mathematics in India, particularly the Kerala School of Mathematics from the 15th and 16th centuries.
He dedicated significant research to the work of the mathematician-astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama and his contributions to calculus, which predated the work of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.