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082 _a510.9548 BAB
100 _aSenthil D. Babu
245 _aMathematics and society
_b: numbers and measures in early modern South India
_c/Senthil D. Babu
260 _a New Delhi
_b:Oxford University Press
_c, 2022
300 _a xiv, 354 pages
_b: illustrations
_c, 23 cm
365 _b1421
505 _aIntroduction : "Fifteen Brahmins and Fifteen Thieves" Towards practice : mathematics beyond the canon Mathematics of the practitioner Memory and mathematics in Tiṇṇai schools Mathematics pedagogy for a public : the colonial transition Conclusion : mathematics and its images of the public Appendix-I : numbers, weights, and measures in the Tamil system Appendix-II : a brief note on Tamil numerical notation Appendix-III : Ponnilakkam, Nellilkkam, Eṇcuvaṭi Appendix-IV : list of text books used for the study
650 _aMathematics
655 _a; History
_b;Mathematics India, South History
700 _aSenthil D. Babu
942 _cBOOK
999 _c59784
_d59784