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Madhava of Sangamagrama

Mathematician; founder of the Kerala school

What they did

Gave infinite series for sine, cosine and the arctangent, with the estimates of their error — results transmitted and proved in the Yuktibhasha of the school he founded.

The text

Aryabhatiya

When

Fourteenth to fifteenth century CE · range · probable
Dated through his pupils and the commentaries of the Kerala school

Where

Sangamagrama — today Kerala · Kerala (probable)

Where it maps in modern education

Mathematics and mathematical sciences — Ganita and Chandah-shastra. Algebra and indeterminate equations, combinatorics, infinite series for trigonometric functions, iterative approximation.

Evidence: probable · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.