Yuktibhāṣā
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Yuktibhāṣā (), also known as Gaṇita-yukti-bhāṣā and '''' (English: Compendium of Astronomical Rationale''), is a treatise on mathematics and astronomy, written by the Indian astronomer Jyeṣṭhadeva of the Kerala school of mathematics around 1530. The treatise, written in Malayalam, is a consolidation of the discoveries by Madhava of Sangamagrama, Nilakantha Somayaji, Parameshvara Nambudiri, Jyeṣṭhadeva, Achyuta Piṣāraṭi, and other astronomer-mathematicians of the Kerala school. It also exists in a Sanskrit version, with unclear author and date, composed as a rough translation of the Malayalam o
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Yuktibhāṣā (), also known as Gaṇita-yukti-bhāṣā and '''' (English: Compendium of Astronomical Rationale''), is a treatise on mathematics and astronomy, written by the Indian astronomer Jyeṣṭhadeva of the Kerala school of mathematics around 1530. The treatise, written in Malayalam, is a consolidation of the discoveries by Madhava of Sangamagrama, Nilakantha Somayaji, Parameshvara Nambudiri, Jyeṣṭhadeva, Achyuta Piṣāraṭi, and other astronomer-mathematicians of the Kerala school. It also exists in a Sanskrit version, with unclear author and date, composed as a rough translation of the Malayalam original.
The work contains proofs and derivations of the theorems that it presents. The demonstrates that at least some early Indian scholars in astronomy and computation had the concept of proofs.
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