The Bakhshali Manuscript The discovery The Bakhshali Manuscript
The Bakhshali Manuscript
The discovery The Bakhshali Manuscript was found by a farmer in 1881, 50 miles from Peshawar Pakistan (used to be a village named Bakhshali). A large amount of the script was lost, only about 70 leaves of birch-barks remained when it was found. It is currently in The Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
When was it made? The date it was made is still unknown. F R Hoernle says it was made between the third and fourth century AD, lots of other historians of mathematics such as B Datta, R C Gupta, S N Sen also agree with this date but many other math's historians disagree like Channabasappa. He says it was made around 200 -400 AD and strongly supports that the number system was made before the 5 th century.
The Bakhshali formula is the fairly accurate computation of square roots of non-square root numbers , this formula is also known as Herons formula named after a Greek mathematician who lived in the second half of the first century A. D. S
Translation of the Bakhshali Manuscript
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