Paramesvara

Parameshvara (परमेश्वर) (1360-1425) was a major Indian mathematician of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school. He presented a series form of the sine function that is equivalent to its Taylor series expansion. Parameshvara - Birth. Paramesvara was born into a namboothiri brahmin family who were astrologers and astronomers. The family home was Vatasseri (also called Vatasreni) in the village of Alattur, Kerala. Paramesvara's coordinates with respect to Ujjain puts it at latitu ...

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Parameshvara's teachers included Rudra, Madhava and Narayana Pundit. Parameshvara wrote many commentaries on many mathematical and astronomical works, such as those by Bhaskara I and Aryabhatta. He made eclipse observations over a 55 year period, and constantly attempted to compare these with the theoretically computed positions of the planets. He revised planetary parameters based on his observations. Paramesvara most significant contributions is his mean value type formula for inverse interpolation of sine. He is the first ma ...

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