Jayadeva (c. 1000 CE) was an Indian mathematician, who further developed the cyclic method ( Chakravala method) [1] that was called by Hermann Hankel "the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before Lagrange (18th century)". [2] He also made significant contributions to combinatorics. [3]
Jayadeva's works are lost, and he is known only from a 20-verse quotation in Udaya-divakara Sundari (c. 1073), a commentary on Bhaskara I's Laghu-bhaskariya. This means that Jayadeva must have lived sometime before 1073, [4] possibly around 1000 CE. [1]
Jayadeva (c. 1000 CE) was an Indian mathematician, who further developed the cyclic method ( Chakravala method) [1] that was called by Hermann Hankel "the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before Lagrange (18th century)". [2] He also made significant contributions to combinatorics. [3]
Jayadeva's works are lost, and he is known only from a 20-verse quotation in Udaya-divakara Sundari (c. 1073), a commentary on Bhaskara I's Laghu-bhaskariya. This means that Jayadeva must have lived sometime before 1073, [4] possibly around 1000 CE. [1]