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Translating Sanskrit Mathematics
- Environmental ScienceAestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
- 2021
A discussion of Jean Michel Delire’s Les mathématiques de l’autel védique. Le Baudhāyana Śulbasūtra et son commentaire Śulbadīpikā.
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This two-volume study of a great Vedic sacrifice, the Agnicayana, or “piling of the fire altar,” accomplishes two ends. First, the work is detailed ethnographic coverage of the twelve-day Agnicayana…
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The book holds much to enjoy and much to learn. Although Mills's analysis is appropriately rooted in the complex dynamics of one performance, she also convincingly connects this single odd occasion…
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