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| name = T. A. Sarasvati Amma | | name = T. A. Sarasvati Amma | ||
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| occupation = [[Mathematician]] | | occupation = [[Mathematician]] | ||
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The [[Kerala Mathematical Association]] started a regular ''Prof. T. A. Sarasvati Amma Memorial Lecture'' in its annual conference in 2002.<ref name="Gupta"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Fraser|first=Craig |title=Report on the Awarding of the Kenneth O. May Prize|url=http://www.unizar.es/ichm/reports/budapest09.html|publisher=[[International Commission on the History of Mathematics]]|accessdate=7 June 2010}}</ref> In the words of Michio Yano, who reviewed Sarasvati Amma's book ''Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India'', the book "established a firm foundation for the study of Indian geometry".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Yano|first=Michio|title=Review of ''Geometry of Ancient and Medieval India'' by T. A. Sarasvati Amma|journal=Historia Mathematica | year=1983 | volume=10|pages=467–470|doi=10.1016/0315-0860(83)90014-9|doi-access=free}}</ref> | The [[Kerala Mathematical Association]] started a regular ''Prof. T. A. Sarasvati Amma Memorial Lecture'' in its annual conference in 2002.<ref name="Gupta"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Fraser|first=Craig |title=Report on the Awarding of the Kenneth O. May Prize|url=http://www.unizar.es/ichm/reports/budapest09.html|publisher=[[International Commission on the History of Mathematics]]|accessdate=7 June 2010}}</ref> In the words of Michio Yano, who reviewed Sarasvati Amma's book ''Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India'', the book "established a firm foundation for the study of Indian geometry".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Yano|first=Michio|title=Review of ''Geometry of Ancient and Medieval India'' by T. A. Sarasvati Amma|journal=Historia Mathematica | year=1983 | volume=10|pages=467–470|doi=10.1016/0315-0860(83)90014-9|doi-access=free}}</ref> | ||
According to [[David Mumford]], along with [[Kim Plofker]]'s book ''[[Mathematics in India]]'', "there is only one other survey, Datta and Singh’s 1938 ''History of Hindu Mathematics''...supplemented by the equally hard to find ''Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India'' by Sarasvati Amma (1979)", where, "one can get an overview of most topics" in [[Indian mathematics]].<ref name=Mumford>{{cite journal|last1=Mumford|first1=David|authorlink=David Mumford|title=Book Review|journal=Notices of the AMS|date=March 2010|volume=57|issue=3|url=http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300385p.pdf}}</ref> | According to [[David Mumford]], along with [[Kim Plofker]]'s book ''[[Mathematics in India (book)|Mathematics in India]]'', "there is only one other survey, Datta and Singh’s 1938 ''History of Hindu Mathematics''...supplemented by the equally hard to find ''Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India'' by Sarasvati Amma (1979)", where, "one can get an overview of most topics" in [[Indian mathematics]].<ref name=Mumford>{{cite journal|last1=Mumford|first1=David|authorlink=David Mumford|title=Book Review|journal=Notices of the AMS|date=March 2010|volume=57|issue=3|url=http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300385p.pdf}}</ref> | ||
Her book ''Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India'' is a survey of the Sanskrit and Prakrt scientific and quasi-scientific literature of India, beginning with the [[Vedas|Vedic literature]] and ending with the early part of the 17th century. It deals in detail with the [[Sulba Sutras]] in the Vedic literature, with the mathematical parts of Jaina Canonical works and of the Hindu Siddhantas and with the contributions to geometry made by the astronomer mathematicians Aryabhata I & II, Sripati, Bhaskara I & II, [[Sangamagrama Madhava]], [[Paramesvara]], [[Nilakantha Somayaji|Nilakantha]], his disciples and a host of others. The works of the mathematicians Mahavira, Sridhara and Narayana Pandita and the Bakshali Manuscript have also been studied. The work seeks to explode the theory that the Indian mathematical genius was predominantly algebraic and computational and that it eschewed proofs and rationales. There was a school in India which delighted in geometric demonstrations of algebraic results.<ref>{{cite book|title=Book Review by Google|isbn = 9788120813441|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ikfy03P7xAsC&q=T.A.+Saraswati+Amma+obituary|accessdate=28 May 2010|last1 = Sarasvati Amma|first1 = T. A.|year = 1999}}</ref> | Her book ''Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India'' is a survey of the Sanskrit and Prakrt scientific and quasi-scientific literature of India, beginning with the [[Vedas|Vedic literature]] and ending with the early part of the 17th century. It deals in detail with the [[Sulba Sutras]] in the Vedic literature, with the mathematical parts of Jaina Canonical works and of the Hindu Siddhantas and with the contributions to geometry made by the astronomer mathematicians Aryabhata I & II, Sripati, Bhaskara I & II, [[Sangamagrama Madhava]], [[Paramesvara]], [[Nilakantha Somayaji|Nilakantha]], his disciples and a host of others. The works of the mathematicians Mahavira, Sridhara and Narayana Pandita and the Bakshali Manuscript have also been studied. The work seeks to explode the theory that the Indian mathematical genius was predominantly algebraic and computational and that it eschewed proofs and rationales. There was a school in India which delighted in geometric demonstrations of algebraic results.<ref>{{cite book|title=Book Review by Google|isbn = 9788120813441|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ikfy03P7xAsC&q=T.A.+Saraswati+Amma+obituary|accessdate=28 May 2010|last1 = Sarasvati Amma|first1 = T. A.|year = 1999}}</ref> | ||
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