Mathematician:Narayana Pandit

Mathematician

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: $n q^2 + 1 = p^2$
• 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

Publications

• 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 Madhava of Sangamagrama)

Also known as

In Sanskrit: नारायण पण्डित

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Narayana Pandit": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive