High Middle Ages · South Asia · Science
1114
Bhaskara II born in Bijapur
1114
In the Deccan, a mathematician was born who would describe solutions to quadratic and Pell equations centuries before Europe caught up, and gesture toward differential calculus in verse commentaries he wrote for his daughter Lilavati. His masterwork, the Siddhanta Shiromani, wove together astronomy, algebra, and number theory in elegant Sanskrit verse, making it both a scientific treatise and a literary work that students memorized for generations.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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