Jayadeva (जयदेव) was a ninth-century 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)"Template:Citation needed. He also made significant contributions to combinatorics.
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- ↑ Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge{{#if:Goonatilake|, Goonatilake}. Indiana University Press(1998). ISBN 0-253-33388-1
- 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, Template:ISBN.
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