Jayadeva (mathematician)

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

References

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