Isbn: 9789380829708 - History and Development of Mathematics in India : Samiksika Series 16 (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9789380829708.

Hardcover. Condition: New. The experiences and knowledge from our past are recorded in manuscripts which have been handed down to us over several thousand years. The Government of India, through the Department of Culture, took note of the importance of this vast tangible heritage and, in order to preserve and conserve as well as to make access to this wealth easy, established the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM). In order to disseminate the knowledge content of manuscripts, the Mission has taken up several programmes such as lectures, seminars and workshops. The Mission has published the proceedings of the above-said programmes under the following series: 'Samiksika' (on conservation), 'Tattvabodha' (comprising lectures based on manuscripts delivered by eminent scholars), 'Samiksika' (research-oriented papers presented in the seminars), 'Krtibodha' (transcribed and edited texts prepared at advanced level manuscriptology workshops conducted by NMM) and 'Prakasika' (publication of rare, unpublished manuscripts). The present work, Samiksika-16 comprises the proceedings of the conference on History and Development of Mathematics held in the Samskrita Academy, Chennai in collaboration with the National Mission for Manuscripts.…