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Although these results all appear in later works, including the Tantrasangraha of Nilakantha and the Yukti-bhasa of Jyesthadeva it is generally accepted that all the above results originated from thework of Madhava. Several of the results are expressly attributed to him, for example Nilakantha quotes an alternate version of the sine series expansion as the work of Madhava. Further to theseincredible contributions to mathematics, Madhava also extended some results found in earlier works, including those of Bhaskaracarya.
The work of Madhava is truly remarkable and hopefully in time fullcredit will be rewarded to his work, as C Rajagopal and M Rangachari note:
...Even if he be credited with only the discoveries of the series (sine and cosine expansions, see above, 3) and 4)) at sounexpectedly early a date, assuredly merits a permanent place among the great mathematicians of the world. [CR /MR1, P 101]
Similarly G Joseph states:
...We may consider Madhava to have been the founderof mathematical analysis. Some of his discoveries in this field show him to have possessed extraordinary intuition. [GJ, P 293]
With regards to Keralese contributions as a whole, M Baron writes (inD Almeida, J John and A Zadorozhnyy):
...Some of the results achieved in connection with numerical integration by means of infinite series anticipate developments in Western Europe by severalcenturies. [DA/JJ/AZ1, P 79]
There remains a final Kerala work worthy of a brief mention, Sadrhana-Mala an astronomical treatise written by Sankara Varman serves as a summary of most of the results of theKerala School. What is of most interest is that it was composed in the early 19th century and the author stands as the last notable name in Keralese mathematics.
In recent histories of mathematicsthere is acknowledgement that some of Madhava's remarkable results were indeed first discovered in India. This is clearly a positive step in redressing the imbalance but it seems unlikely that full...