From Samarqand to Jaipur

Calculating the sine of one degree, not possible with the tools of geometry alone, was a problem approached frequently in various ways in Hellenistic, Arabic, Persian, and European trigonometry. This book situates the problem and the iterative techniques often used to solve it in the context of Indian trigonometry, focusing on the Sanskrit text and manuscript that form the main subject of th is study: the jyācāpa section of the Siddhāntakaustubha of Jagannātha. This text describes the appro