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Leslie Plofker (born
November 25, 1964) is an
American historian of mathematics,
specializing in
Indian mathematics. Born in Chennai, India,
Plofker received...
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Narlikar 2009.
Plofker 2009, p. 36.
Ohashi 1999, p. 719.
Plofker 2009, pp. 35–36.
Pingree 1973, p. 1.
Plofker 2009, pp. 67–68.
Plofker 2009, pp. 68–71...
- in 2020.
Brown curates an
editorial website. She and her
husband Steven Plofker redesigned The George, a
boutique hotel located in Montclair, New Jersey...
- Weil 1984, pp. 17–24.
Plofker 2008, p. 119. Any
early contact between Babylonian and
Indian mathematics remains conjectural (
Plofker 2008, p. 42). Mumford...
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followed by
rules for five
types of combinations: [...]
Plofker (2007, pp. 421–427)
Plofker (2007, p. 423) Here the sums of the
squares and
cubes of...
- test
dates was
criticised by a
group of
Indian mathematical historians (
Plofker et al. 2017 and
Houben 2018 §3). Up
until Sep 2024 the m****cript is known...
- pp. 12–15.
Plofker 2009, Ch. 2.
Plofker 2009, pp. 68–69.
Plofker 2009, p. 14.
Menninger 2013, p. 397.
Smith &
Karpinski 2013, p. 15.
Plofker 2009, p. 57...
- cord, and
these texts are "rules of the cord". They provide,
states Kim
Plofker, what in
modern mathematical terminology would be
called "area preserving...
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planets are ellipses."
Hayashi (2008),
Aryabhata I
Aryabhatiya 1.3ab, see
Plofker 2009, p. 111. [achalAni
bhAni samapashchimagAni ... – golapAda.9–10]. Translation...
- proof, well
known by schoolchildren. However, as
mathematics historian Kim
Plofker points out,
after presenting a worked-out example,
Bhaskara II
states the...
