Jayadeva (mathematician) explained

Jayadeva (c. 1000 CE) was an Indian mathematician, who further developed the cyclic method (Chakravala method)^[1] that was called by Hermann Hankel "the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before Lagrange (18th century)".^[2] He also made significant contributions to combinatorics.^[3]

Jayadeva's works are lost, and he is known only from a 20-verse quotation in Udaya-divakara Sundari (c. 1073), a commentary on Bhaskara I's Laghu-bhaskariya. This means that Jayadeva must have lived sometime before 1073,^[4] possibly around 1000 CE.^[1]

See also

• List of Indian mathematicians

Notes and References

1. Book: Goonatilake, Susantha . Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge . 1998 . Indiana University Press . Indiana . 0-253-33388-1 . 127, 128 .
2. Book: Helaine Selin . Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures . 1 . 2008 . Springer . 200 .
3. Book: B. V. Subbarayappa . S. R. N. Murthy . Scientific Heritage of India . 1988 . Mythic Society . 59 .
4. Encyclopedia: K. V. Sarma . K. V. Sarma . Jayadeva . Helaine Selin . Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures . 1 . 2nd . 2008 . Springer . 978-1-4020-4559-2 . 1153 .