Vaṭeśvara

Vaṭeśvara (born c. 880) was a tenth-century Indian mathematician from Kashmir. Quotes thumb|Just as a house lizard runs about on the surface of a pitcher lying in open space, so do the human beings move about comfortably all around the Earth. Just as an iron ball surrounded by pieces of magnet does not fall though standing (supportless) in the sky, in the same way this (globe of the) Earth though supportless does not fall as it is prevented by (the attraction of) the stars and planets. Gola, ch. 5, sec. 2 (tr. K. S. Shukla, 1985) Just as a house lizard runs about on the surface of a pitcher lying in open space, so do the human beings move about comfortably all around the Earth. Gola, ch. 5, sec. 8 (tr. K. S. Shukla, 1985) External links Kripa Shankar Shukla, trans. Vaṭeśvara-siddhānta and Gola of Vaṭeśvara, pt. 2 (New Delhi: Indian Science Academy, 1985) C. K. Raju, Cultural Foundations of Mathematics, Vol. 10, Pt. 4: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe (India: Pearson Longman, 2007) pp. 214–15 Category:880s births Category:Mathematicians from India