Alessandra Petrocchi

Gebundenes Buch

The Ga¿itatilaka and its Commentary

Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts

Beschreibung

The Gäitatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Gäitatilaka by ¿r¿pati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Si¿hatilakas¿ri (13th century CE).

Autor

Alessandra Petrocchi completed a PhD in Sanskrit and Classical Indian Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, UK, undertaking research into the early vernaculars of Italy and the history of numerals in the Renaissance. She has published several papers on Sanskrit sources on mathematics, comparative and historical Indo- European linguistics, and Italian Renaissance literature. Her research interests include textual criticism, manuscript studies, textual traditions and networks of knowledge across the Mediterranean, and the language-culture-literature interface.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9781138496217
• ISBN-10: 1138496219
• Artikelnr.: 55809107