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Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics

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  1. The achievements of Kerala School of mathematics were documented by the Englishman C. M. Whish in 1835. This is about nine years after the date of the Survey of Indigenous Education in the Madras 1822-26.
  1. In attempting to solve astronomical problems, the Kerala school independently created a number of important mathematical concepts.
  1. Some noteworthy discoveries and contributions were made in the field of: infinite series, calculus (differentiation and integration), functions, trigonometric functions, derivatives of trigonometric functions (later know as Taylor-Maclaurin), infinite series of sin(x), cos(x) and arctan(x), Leibniz method using quadrature, infinite series of arctan(x), infinite series expression for π (later known as Gregory series), rational approximation of the error for the finite sum of their series, special infinite series to obtain a more rapidly converging series for π.

[i] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_school_of_astronomy_and_mathematics