By Agathe Keller

In the 5th century, the Indian mathematician Aryabhata wrote a small yet well-known paintings on astronomy in 118 verses referred to as the Aryabhatiya. Its moment bankruptcy supplies a precis of Hindu arithmetic as much as that time, and two hundred years later, the Indian astronomer Bhaskara glossed that bankruptcy. This quantity is a literal English translation of Bhaskara’s observation whole with an introduction.

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Xxiv. ab in volume I, p. 107; volume II, p. 118. 14 in volume I, p. 70, and for an explanation of the Rule of Three applied in that portion, volume II, p. 78. 10, volume I, p. 56; volume II, p. 47. C. The commentary and its treatise li The standard formulation of a Rule of Three stands as a specific syntactical leitmotiv. Even without renaming quantities, when they are woven into the standard formulation one knows what are the ratios at stake and what computation should be carried out. c Conclusion A textual practice that is simultaneously a mathematical action has been highlighted: the attribution of technical names, be it the sides of a right-angle triangle or the typology of the quantities in a Rule of Three.

Operation. ita or “geometry”. ¯ı-operation, geometrically, is the construction of a square knowing one of its sides. ¯ı-operation is what “makes”, in a right triangle, the hypotenuse equal to the other sides. That is, in a right-angled triangle, the square constructed from the hypotenuse has an area equal to the summed areas of the squares constructed from the triangle’s two other sides. - (to make). ¯ı represents first a geometrical entity, the operation of producing the square of which a given side is known.

Xxiv. ab in volume I, p. 107; volume II, p. 118. 14 in volume I, p. 70, and for an explanation of the Rule of Three applied in that portion, volume II, p. 78. 10, volume I, p. 56; volume II, p. 47. C. The commentary and its treatise li The standard formulation of a Rule of Three stands as a specific syntactical leitmotiv. Even without renaming quantities, when they are woven into the standard formulation one knows what are the ratios at stake and what computation should be carried out. c Conclusion A textual practice that is simultaneously a mathematical action has been highlighted: the attribution of technical names, be it the sides of a right-angle triangle or the typology of the quantities in a Rule of Three.

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