Kim Plofker

[Dinesh Maheshwari]

Dear Johannes,
Kim's email address is Kim_Plofker at brown.edu ; I  was in correspondence
with her at the aforementioned email address till March 9th, 2000

Her web page is
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History_Mathematics/plofker.html

She was a student of Professor David Pingree  and does subscribe to
Dr Pingree's school of thought  regarding history of Indian Mathematics.

Perhaps you already know that Dr Pingree's work is a large compilation
of history of Indian mathematics and astronomy but is unfortunately not
thorough with regards to early Indian mathematics/astronomy and is
in contradiction with the deeper analysis by mathematicians and historians
like  A. Siedenberg etc.

Regards,
Dinesh Maheshwari


Johannes Bronkhorst wrote:

> Could anyone inform me about the work and whereabouts of Kim Plofker, who
> seems to be working in the field of Indian mathematics? Thanks in advance.
>
> Johannes Bronkhorst