Dear Colleagues,

Thanks for the announcement.

If you wish, I could explain some of my recent work on the developement
of mathematics as apodictic discourse in India. Most of the relevant
papers since 2006, except the most recent ones, may be downloaded from
my web page (see the signature below). For the ones I haven't yet put on
a reprint server, here is a link

https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=7ebd10a4-5b1e-4005-bdc1-70500af755c0

The languages of the texts studied include Sanskrit and Tamil, as well
as Pali & Chinese (we translated for the first time a Chinese text on
the reception of Indian mathematics in the 6th c.). The conclusions that
admit of generalization to other cultural areas are relevant for
mathematical texts in Italian, German, Russian,... but these mostly do
not deal with South Asia.

Possible topics on which these papers have provided new information
could include the following, mostly based on Sanskrit texts:

- how the theorem on the square of the diagonal of an oblong was stated
and derived in India

- the relation between the invention of mathematics as discourse and
Indian theories of ritual

- the invention of the positional system with zero and writing in India,
on the basis of Sanskrit and Tamil sources

- mathematics of the Vedic period as the foundation of later Indian
mathematics

Let me know if any of these (or other issues related to these papers) is
of interest to your project. By the way, I will be teaching a course at
the Sorbonne in Paris starting October 17 (hybrid mode, in French &
English) on some of these issues. Details are on my web page. Of course,
feel free to forward the information to any interested people.

With best wishes,

          Satyanad Kichenassamy

Le 07/08/2025 à 18:07, Dagmar Wujastyk via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Lisa Brooks and I are currently working on the schedule of the forthcoming
> season of our online group "History of Science in Early South Asia"with the
> Consortium for the History of Science and Medicine . See
> https://www.chstm.org/group/history-science-early-south-asia
>
> The working group brings together scholars who study the history of science
> in South Asia before about 1800 and as discoverable from literatures in
> Sanskrit and other indigenous Indian languages. We have had talks on
> mathematics, medicine, astronomy, alchemy, metallurgy and others so far.
> The group meets monthly during the academic year. We welcome the
> presentation of individual and group work-in-progress, facilitated
> discussions of published articles and books, and focused reading sessions
> in Indic languages.
>
> We still have several open slots for the new season, starting in September.
> Please get in touch with Lisa and me if you would like to present or
> discuss your research. We welcome both new and established scholars.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dagmar (and Lisa)
>
> Dagmar Wujastyk
> Associate Professor, History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta
>
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Satyanad KICHENASSAMY
Professor of Mathematics
Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Reims  (CNRS, UMR9008)
     and GREI (EPHE-Paris and Sorbonne-Université)
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
F-51687 Reims Cedex 2
France
Web: https://www.normalesup.org/~kichenassamy
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