Manuscrit de Bakhshalivignette|upright=1.4|Ecriture des chiffres dans le manuscrit de Bakhshali. alt=|350x350px|Bakhshali manuscript Morceau de parchemin. Le manuscrit de Bakhshali est un recueil de textes mathématiques trouvé en 1881 près du village de au Pakistan, à 80 km au nord-est de Peshawar. Écrit sur de l'écorce de bouleau, c'est le plus ancien document montrant l'utilisation du zéro et il est considéré comme le plus ancien manuscrit traitant des mathématiques indiennes. Il est conservé depuis 1902 à la bibliothèque Bodléienne à Oxford.
District de PatnaPatna district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in eastern India. Patna, the capital of Bihar, is the district headquarters. The Patna district is a part of Patna division. The Patna district is divided into 6 Sub-divisions (Tehsils) i.e. Patna Sadar, Patna City, Barh, Masaurhi, Danapur and Paliganj. As of 2011, it is the most populous district of Bihar and fifteenth most populous district in India. The revenue district of Patna comes under the jurisdiction of a District Collector (District Magistrate).
ChandasSanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This field of study was central to the composition of the Vedas, the scriptural canons of Hinduism, so central that some later Hindu and Buddhist texts refer to the Vedas as Chandas. The Chandas, as developed by the Vedic schools, were organized around seven major metres, and each had its own rhythm, movements and aesthetics.
Al-KhwârizmîMuḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (en محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي), généralement appelé Al-Khwârizmî (latinisé en Algoritmi ou Algorizmi), né dans les années 780, probablement à Khiva dans la région du Khwarezm (d'où il prend son nom), dans l'actuel Ouzbékistan, mort vers 850 à Bagdad, est un mathématicien, géographe, astrologue et astronome persan, membre de la Maison de la sagesse de Bagdad. Ses écrits, rédigés en langue arabe, puis traduits en latin à partir du , ont permis l'introduction de l'algèbre en Europe.
SiddhantaSiddhānta (सिद्धान्त) is a Sanskrit term denoting the established and accepted view of any particular school within Indian philosophy; literally "settled opinion or doctrine, dogma, axiom, received or admitted truth; any fixed or established or canonical text-book on any subject" (from siddha, adj. mfn.- accomplished, fulfilled; that has attained the highest object, thoroughly skilled or versed in). This term is an established term within Hindu philosophy which denotes a specific line of development within a Hindu religious or philosophical tradition.
TantrasamgrahaTantrasamgraha, or Tantrasangraha, (literally, A Compilation of the System) is an important astronomical treatise written by Nilakantha Somayaji, an astronomer/mathematician belonging to the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. The treatise was completed in 1501 CE. It consists of 432 verses in Sanskrit divided into eight chapters. Tantrasamgraha had spawned a few commentaries: Tantrasamgraha-vyakhya of anonymous authorship and Yuktibhāṣā authored by Jyeshtadeva in about 1550 CE.
