Kim Plofker

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Kim Plofker is affiliated with the following schools: Brown University, Haverford College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Union College, New York

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According to Wikipedia, Kim Leslie Plofker is an American historian of mathematics, specializing in Indian mathematics. Education and career Born in Chennai, India, Plofker received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from Haverford College. She received her Ph.D. in 1995 while studying with adviser David Pingree from Brown University, where she conducted research and later joined as a guest professor.

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Mathematics in India (2021) (56)
Studies in the history of the exact sciences in honour of David Pingree (2003) (30)
An Example of the Secant Method of Iterative Approximation in a Fifteenth-Century Sanskrit Text (1996) (10)
The “Error” in the Indian “Taylor Series Approximation” to the Sine (2001) (7)
LINKS BETWEEN SANSKRIT AND MUSLIM SCIENCE IN JAINA ASTRONOMICAL WORKS (2010) (5)
‘Yavana’ and ‘Indian’: Transmission and Foreign Identity in the Exact Sciences (2011) (5)
Relations between Approximations to the Sine in Kerala Mathematics (2005) (5)
The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam (2021) (4)
Ganitasarakaumudi: The Moonlight of the Essence of Mathematics, by Thakkura Pheru (2012) (4)
Eclipse computation tables in Sanskrit astronomy A critical edition of the tables of the Karaṇakesarī of Bhāskara (fl. c. 1681) (2017) (3)
How to appreciate Indian techniques for deriving mathematical formulas (1996) (3)
The Astrolabe and Spherical Trigonometry in Medieval India (2000) (3)
Sanskrit Astronomical Tables (2019) (3)
The Karaṇakesari of Bhāskara: a 17th-century Table Text for Computing Eclipses (2014) (2)
The Bakhshālī Manuscript: A response to the Bodleian Library’s radiocarbon dating (2017) (2)
Spoken Text and Written Symbol: The Use of Layout and Notation in Sanskrit Scientific Manuscripts (2009) (1)
Indian Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Their Colophons (2012) (1)
A Passage to Infinity:Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact by George Gheverghese Joseph New Delhi: SAGE (2013) (1)
Spherical Trigonometry in the Astronomy of the Medieval Kerala School (1998) (1)
Euler and Indian Astronomy (2007) (1)
Content and classification of table texts (2018) (1)
The Transformation of a Handbook into Tables: The Brahmatulyasāranī and the Karanakutūhala of Bhāskara (2015) (1)
Mathematical Astronomy in India (2015) (1)
Eloge: David Pingree, 1933–2005 (2007) (1)
Empires and exact sciences in pre-modern Eurasia (2007) (1)
Derivation and Revelation: The Legitimacy of Mathematical Models in Indian Cosmology (2005) (1)
The evolution of the table-text genre (2018) (0)
Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit (2012) (0)
The Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasāraṇī (2020) (0)
Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters, J. Lennart Berggren, Alexander Jones. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2001), xiii + 192 pp. $29.95, ISBN: 0-691-09259-1 (2006) (0)
In memoriam David Pingree (2015) (0)
Table-text manuscripts (2018) (0)
Mathematics in the Classical Sanskrit Sciences (2016) (0)
Chapter 9. Continuity and Changes in the Modern Period (2008) (0)
Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī by K. Ramasubramanian and M. S. Sriram (2013) (0)
Calendars in India (2011) (0)
SANSKRIT ASTRONOMICAL TABLES : THE STATE OF THE FIELD (2014) (0)
The Possibility of a Changing Period for V1288 Sagittarii (1986) (0)
Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment (2020) (0)
Chapter 8. Exchanges with the Islamic World (2008) (0)
Chapter 6. The Development of “Canonical” Mathematics (2008) (0)
Anachronism and anachorism in the study of mathematics in India (2021) (0)
Appendix A. Some Basic Features of Sanskrit Language and Literature (2008) (0)
Takao Hayashi, The Bakhshālī Manuscript (1998) (0)
Chapter 4. The Mathematical Universe (2008) (0)
In memoriam: David Edwin Pingree (2 Jan 1933 -- 11 Nov 2005) (2009) (0)
Spherical Trigonometry in the Medieval Kerala School (1997) (0)
David Pingree (1933–2005) (2007) (0)
"Indian" Rules, "Yavana" Rules: Foreign Identity and the Transmission of Mathematics (2011) (0)
Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India . By Gyan Prakash. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv, 304 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). (2000) (0)
Chapter 5. The Genre of Medieval Mathematics (2008) (0)
Chapter 7. The School of Mādhava in Kerala (2008) (0)
Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India (2009) (0)
Appendix B. Biographical Data on Indian Mathematicians (2008) (0)
Professor R. C. Gupta Receives the Kenneth O. May Prize (2019) (0)
Pushpa Kumari Jain (Editor and Translator).The Sūryaprakāśa of Sūryadāsa. Volume 1. (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series, 182.) xviii + 264 pp., figs., apps., bibl. Vadodara: Oriental Institute, 2001. Rs 265. (2005) (0)
Adaptation to early modern heliocentrism in technical vocabulary of Sanskrit mathematical astronomy (2022) (0)
Hands On History: The Cycloid Pendulum Clock of Christiaan Huygens (2007) (0)
Appendix: Sanskrit Astronomy and the Karaṇakutūhala (2020) (0)
Astronomy and Astrology in India (2018) (0)
Mathematical Time Capsules: The Mathematics of Measuring Time (2011) (0)
Chapter 3. Mathematical Traces in the Early Classical Period (2008) (0)
Bhojarājā and Bhāskara: Precursors of Karaṇakutūhala algebraic approximation formulas in the Rājamṛgāṅka (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. Mathematical Thought in Vedic India (2008) (0)
HELAINE SELIN (ed.) and UBIRATAN D'AMBROSIO (advisory ed.), Mathematics across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics. Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 2. Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xx+479. ISBN 0-7923-6481-3. £135.00, $217.00 (h (2005) (0)
Elements of table texts (2018) (0)
Astronomy and Mathematics (2011) (0)

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