Govindasvāmi

Govindasvāmi (or Govindasvāmin) (c. 800 – c. 860) was an Indian mathematical astronomer most famous for his Bhasya, a commentary on the Mahābhāskarīya of Bhāskara I, written around 830. The commentary contains many examples illustrating the use of a Sanskrit place-value system and the construction of a sine table.

His work "Govindakriti" was a sequel to Āryabhaṭīya and is lost. His works have been quoted extensively by Sankaranarayana (869 AD) and Udayadivakara (1073 AD) and by Nilakantha Somayaji.

References

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Govindasvami", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Gupta, R. C. (1971). "Fractional parts of Aryabhata's sines and certain rules found in Govindasvami's Bhasya on the Mahabhaskarya". Indian J. History Sci. 6: 51–59.
• Jha, S. K.; V N Jha (1991). "Computation of sine-table based on the Mahasiddhanta of Aryabhata II". J. Bihar Math. Soc. 14: 9–17.
• Meijering, Erik (March 2002). "A Chronology of Interpolation: From Ancient Astronomy to Modern Signal and Image Processing" (PDF). Proceedings of the IEEE. 90 (3): 319–342. doi:10.1109/5.993400. Archived from the original (– ^{Scholar search}) on January 28, 2007. {{cite journal}}: External link in |format= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

• A Chronology of Interpolation