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'''Jayadeva''' ('''जयदेव''') was a ninth-century [[India]]n [[mathematician]], who further developed the cyclic method ([[Chakravala method]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge |last=Goonatilake |first=Susantha |year=1998 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Indiana |isbn=0-253-33388-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/towardglobalscie0000goon/page/127 127, 128] |url=https://archive.org/details/towardglobalscie0000goon/page/127 }}</ref>  that was called by [[Hermann Hankel]] "the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before [[Joseph Louis Lagrange|Lagrange]] (18th century)"{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}. He also made significant contributions to [[combinatorics]].

==See also==
*[[List of Indian mathematicians]]

==References==
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* [[K. V. Sarma]] (2008), "Jayadeva", [[Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures]] (2nd edition) edited by [[Helaine Selin]], Springer, {{ISBN|978-1-4020-4559-2}}.

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