"There is only one other survey, Datta and Singh’s 1938 History of Hindu Mathematics, recently reprinted but very hard to obtain in the West (I found a copy in a small specialized bookstore in Chennai). They describe in some detail the Indian work in arithmetic and algebra and, supplemented by the equally hard to find Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India by Sarasvati Amma (1979), one can get an overview of most topics."
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David Mumford
David Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician and Professor Emeritus at Brown University and Harvard University. Mumford is known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and was awarded the in 1974, and the in 2010.
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