Knuth on Indian combinatorics

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Historians of mathematics may be interested to see that the computer 
scientist Emeritus Prof. Don Knuth, Stanford, has written a short "History 
of Combinatorial Generation" in which he deals with a number of early 
combinatoric systems, including those in Pingala's Chandahsutra, Kedara's 
Vrttaratnakara, in the Prakrita Paingala, and Narayana Pandita's work.

The pre-publication fascicle is available as a PostScript file at:

   http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/fasc4b.ps.gz

Prof. Knuth will pay you a cheque if you find errors in his work.  See
   http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/news.html

Best,
Dominik