D.D. Kosambi Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics
This book fills an important gap in studies on D. D. Kosambi. For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. A number of his papers that are difficul
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D.D. Kosambi
Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics
D.D. Kosambi
Ramakrishna Ramaswamy Editor
D.D. Kosambi Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics
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Editor Ramakrishna Ramaswamy School of Physical Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
ISBN 978-81-322-3674-0 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4
ISBN 978-81-322-3676-4
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Preface
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi1 was a man of many parts: phi beta kappa scholar and Harvard graduate, mathematics professor, historian, archaeologist, epigraphist, polyglot, numismatist, Sanskritist, Indologist, and Marxist: the list of his identities and his personæ is a long and varied one. Over a period of a little over 35 years, Kosambi built a reputation as a major (if somewhat maverick) thinker of modern India, and this reputation has largely remained intact over the years. Widely regarded as one of the founding figures of contemporary Indian historiography, Kosambi quantified numismatics and used statistical inference to inform the study of Indian history [1]. His contributions to Indology and the study of prehistory have been fundamental, and his translations of the poetry of Bhartrhari [2] are considered definitive. As it happens, while the historian, Indologist, and numismatist Kosambi has been written about and his articles and papers in those areas have been published in collections [3] and celebrated, much less has been done with regard to his contributions to mathematics and statistics. This is surprising for at least two reasons. Kosambi was first and last a mathematician in that his first independent paper and his last-known academic contribu
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