You are here  Mathematics in India  Frank J. Swetz (Pennsylvania
State Univ. )   Mathematics in India, Kim Plofker, 2009, 357 pp.
illustrations, tables, bibliographies, hardback, $ 39.50. ISBN
978-0-691-12067-6, Princeton University Press, 41 William St.,
Princeton, N.J. 08540.   Reports on the history of Indian
mathematics have often been clouded by emotion and chauvinism.
For many years the standard reference on Indian mathematics has
been Datta and Singh’s History of Hindu Mathematics: a
Sourcebook originally published in the 1930s but reissued by
Asia Publishing House in 1962. Since its first appearance,
notable advances have been made in Sanskrit scholarship and a
better understanding of ancient Indian of mathematics and its
practices has been achieved. Now, Kim Plofker, historian of
mathematics and Sanskrit scholar, attempts to bring the modern
reader up-to-date on the historical status of Indian
mathematics. In doing so she has undertaken a formidable task as
available sources are limited and those tha