Sankara Variar

Sankara Variyar (c. 1500 - c. 1560) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. His family were employed as temple-assistants in the temple at Tṛkkuṭaveli near modern Ottapalam. Quotes The diameter multiplied by four and divided by unity (is found and saved). Again the products of the diameter and four are divided by the odd numbers like three, five, etc., and the results are subtracted and added in order. Shankara Variyar (1500–1560) in his Kriyakramakari quotes the verse of Madhava. Ramasubramanian, K. and M. D. Srinivas. ‘Development of Calculus in India’. In Studies in the History of Indian Mathematics, edited by C. S. Seshadri, pp. 201- 286. New Delhi: Hindustan Book Agency, 2010.:व््ययासे वारिधिनिहते रूपहृते व््ययाससागराभिहते।त्रिशरादिविषमसङ््खख््ययाभक्तमृणं स््ववं पृथक् क्रमात् कुर््ययात्॥ quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189 External links Category:Hindus from India Category:Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics Category:Mathematicians from India Category:Astronomers from India Category:1500s births Category:1560s deaths