The Gaṇitatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts

ISBN-13: 9781032338538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 452 str.

Alessandra Petrocchi

Opis

The Ga¿itatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Ga¿itatilaka by Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Si¿hatilakasuri (13th century CE).

Spis treści

List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part 1: Introduction; Chapter 1. Introducing the Ga¿itatilaka and its commentary; Chapter 2. On the edition of the Ga¿itatilaka and some methodological notes; Part 2: Translation; Chapter 3. Translation of the Ga¿itatilaka and its commentary; Part 3: Text analysis; Chapter 4. Text Analyis; Appendix 1: List of mathematical rules and sample problems supplied by the SGT and which are found in other works; Appendix 2: Rules and sample problems of the GT occurring in other works; Appendix 3: Glossaries; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Alessandra Petrocchi completed a PhD in Sanskrit and Classical Indian Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, UK, undertaking research into the early vernaculars of Italy and the history of numerals in the Renaissance. She has published several papers on Sanskrit sources on mathematics, comparative and historical Indo- European linguistics, and Italian Renaissance literature. Her research interests include textual criticism, manuscript studies, textual traditions and networks of knowledge across the Mediterranean, and the language-culture-literature interface.