Mathematician:Narayana Pandit

Narayana Pandit (Sanskrit: नारायण पण्डित) was an Indian mathematician who made considerable contributions to several areas of Indian mathematics.

Nationality
Indian

History

 * Born: c. 1340, India
 * Died: c. 1400, India

Achievements

 * A rule to calculate approximate values of square roots
 * Investigations into what is now known as Pell's Equation: $nq^2 + 1 = p^2$
 * Solutions of indeterminate higher-order equations
 * Mathematical operations with zero
 * Several geometrical rules
 * A discussion of magic squares and similar figures
 * Minor contributions to the ideas of differential calculus found in Bhaskara II's work.
 * Contributions to the topic of cyclic quadrilaterals
 * Developing a method for systematic generation of all permutations of a given sequence

Books and Papers

 * Ganita Kaumudi
 * Bijganita Vatamsa


 * Possibly also the author of Karmapradipika (or Karma-Paddhati), an elaborate commentary of Bhaskara II's Lilavati (although some historians attribute it to Mādhava of Sañgamāgrama)