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		cleanchit on March 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An ancient Indian Buddhist monk buried in Athens > was able to calculate the expansion of sines and cosines before Taylor’s theorems. It also had an understanding of sines cosines We need a source

kaitai on March 28, 2023 [–]

Here are pointers to some sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100214195826/http://www.new.dl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuktibhāṣā with digital open access at https://books.sayahna.org/ml/pdf/yukthibhasha.pdf (I'm afraid I cannot read it)

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