Jayadeva (mathematician)
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Jayadeva (जयदेव) was a ninth-century 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)"[citation needed]. He also made significant contributions to combinatorics.
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- ^ Goonatilake, Susantha (1998). Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge. Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 127, 128. ISBN 0-253-33388-1.
- K. V. Sarma (2008), "Jayadeva", Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (2nd edition) edited by Helaine Selin, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-4559-2.
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