TY  - BOOK
AU  - Babu,Senthil D.
TI  - Mathematics and society: numbers and measures in early modern South India 
SN  - 9780190994341
AV  - QA27 
U1  - 510.9548 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - India, South
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - This title studies the regional tradition of mathematics in the Tamil-speaking areas of Southern India. It questions the established nature of Indian history of mathematics, which is based only on the Bhatta-Bhaskara tradition. Instead, it brings in practitioners like village accountants and school teachers as primary agents in the practice of mathematics. The author studies these hitherto unexplored historical sources and presents them in a new light. He talks about mathematics at the workplace, at the school, and at the village square in precolonial Tamil society. Finally, the author studies what happened to these practices when encountered by the colonial revenue administration and brings out a social history of mathematics in India
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9788194831600.001.0001
ER  -