Jayadeva (mathematician)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Jayadeva (c. 1000 CE) was an Indian mathematician, who further developed the cyclic method (Chakravala method)<ref name="SG">Template:Cite book</ref> that was called by Hermann Hankel "the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before Lagrange (18th century)".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He also made significant contributions to combinatorics.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Jayadeva's works are lost, and he is known only from a 20-verse quotation in Udaya-divakara Sundari (c. 1073), a commentary on Bhaskara I's Laghu-bhaskariya. This means that Jayadeva must have lived sometime before 1073,<ref name="KVS">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> possibly around 1000 CE.<ref name="SG"/>

See also

• List of Indian mathematicians

References

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