Thursday, June 04, 2009
Kim Plofker's book on Indian mathematics
Kim Plofker's book on Indian mathematics which has been mentioned before Indian mathematics miscelleny is reviewd by Pervez Hoodbhoy in Naure An Indian history of numbers. It seems to be a lazy review. Having gone through her long article in The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook, I am not planning to read her new book any time soon and assume that it is good. Excerpts of thelater book are available here. Here is a review of the later book in which Kim Plofker's contribution is discussed in some detail by Clemency Montelle.
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There's also David Mumford's review of the book, in Notices of the AMS: http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300385p.pdf
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