References for Bhaskara


    1. Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. (WWW version)

    Articles:

    1. S P Arya, On the Brahmagupta- Bhaskara equation, Math. Ed. 8 (1) (1991), 23-27.
    2. C-O Selenius, Rationale of the chakravala process of Jayadeva and Bhaskara II, Historia Math. 2 (1975), 167-184.
    3. C-O Selenius, Kettenbruch theoretische Erklärung der zyklischen Methode zur Lösung der Bhaskara-Pell-Gleichung, Acta Acad. Abo. Math. Phys. 23 (10) (1963.
    4. B Chaudhary and P Jha, Studies of Bhaskara's works in Mithila, Ganita Bharati 12 (1-2) (1990), 27-32.
    5. B Datta, The two Bhaskaras, Indian Historical Quarterly 6 (1930), 727-736.
    6. Gupta, R. C. Bhaskara II's derivation for the surface of a sphere, Math. Education 7 (1973), A49-A52.
    7. V Madhukar Mallayya and K Jha, Bhaskara's concept of numeration in decuple proportions - earliest reference in Vedas with Yaska's 'Nirukta' throwing light on the notion of succession in enumeration : an anticipation of Peano's axioms, Ganita-Bharati 17 (1-4) (1995), 85-91.
    8. S R Sinha, Bhaskara's Lilavati, Bull. Allahabad Univ. Math. Assoc. 15 (1951), 9-16.
    9. D A Somayaji, Bhaskara's calculations of the gnomon's shadow, Math. Student 18 (1950), 1-8.

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