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A Study in the Mathematical Contribution Varahmihira and his Heritage
by Professor Pandey
This book mainly focuses on the life and contribution of 
Acarya
Varamihira, one of the most outstanding mathematicians of
the ‘Golden Age of Mathematics’ in India (from
5th to 12th Century AD), to the discipline. Since Varamihira,
following the ancient Indian tradition had written almost
nothing about himself, there remained a lot of ambiguity about
his life and flourishing time. It examines in detail almost
all available evidences and attempts to set right the arising
disputes. Refuting convincingly, the assertions of H.T. Colebrooke
(1872) and Swami Satya Prakash Saraswati that Aryabhat was
the founder of Algebra in India, the book presents a systematic
account of algebraic equations, permutations and combinations
from many centuries prior to Aryabhat and highlights the role
of Varamihira and his school up to the time of Bhaskaracarya.
The book claims that 200 years before the Ptolemy's observatory
at Alexendria, two observatory were established at Ujjain
and Dhar, which were renovated by Varamihira, who constructed
the first observatory of the Middle East at Junde-Shapur in
Iran during the reign of the king Khusro-I Anosharvan.
Finally, it presents an interesting account of the journey
of Indian Mathematics to the court of Khalifa Al Mansur, which
paved the way for systematic development of Mathematics in
Europe.
Professor G S Pandey completed M.Sc. in Mathematics from the
University of Sagaur in 1960, securing second position in
merit list. He obtained Ph.D and D.Sc degrees in 1963 and
1968 respectively for his research work on "Summability
of Special Orthogonal Expansions".
Professor Pandey has been a Visiting Scholar at Mathematical
Institute of Hungarian Academy of Science (Budapest), Fulbright
Fellow (Chicago, USA) and Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced
Study, Shimla for three years. He worked for 15 years as Head,
School of Studies in Mathematics, Vikram University. He was
the President of Indian Society for History of Mathematics
for six years. He has published 64 research papers in reputed
foreign and Indian journals, five books and a novel about
the life and work of Acarya Varamihira (published by Bharatiya
Jnanpeeth, New Delhi, 2009). Fourteen students have obtained
Ph.D under his supervision. He worked as Editor, Vikram Mathematical
Journal for 10 years and was reviewer for Zentralblatt fur
Mathematik (Berlin) for 20 years. Presently, Professor Pandey
is engaged in research work on Approximation Theory, Generalized
Functions, Macroeconomic Analysis and History of Mathematics.
