K. Venkateswara Sarma | |
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| Born | December 22, 1919 |
| Died | January 13, 2005 (aged 85) |
| Citizenship | Indian  |
| Alma mater | Maharaja's College of Science and Maharaja's College of Arts, Thiruvananthapuram |
| Known for | A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy [1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History of astronomy History of mathematics |
Krishna Venkateswara Sarma[1] (1919–2005) was an Indian historian of science, particularly the astronomy and mathematics of the Kerala school. He was responsible for bringing to light several of the achievements of the Kerala school.[2] He was editor of the Vishveshvaranand Indological Research Series, and published the critical edition of several source works in Sanskrit, including the Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata. He was recognised as "the greatest authority on Kerala's astronomical tradition".[3]
- ^ Krishnamachari, Suganthy (14 February 2020). "Tribute to scholarship". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Divakaran, P. P. (8 December 2007), "The First Textbook of Calculus: Yuktibhāṣā", Journal of Indian Philosophy, 35 (5): 417–443, doi:10.1007/s10781-007-9029-1, S2CID 170254981: "The late K. V. Sarma, whose efforts more than of anyone else brought the main texts of Kerala mathematics and astronomy to the attention of the scholarly world, had completed (in association with M. D. Srinivas, M. S. Sriram and K. Ramasubramanian) an English translation of both parts of YB at the time of his death in January 2005, but it is yet to appear."
- ^ K. Chandra Hari (25 Oct 2007) Critical Evidence to Fix the Native Place of Āryabhat̟a-I, Current Science 93(8)