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K. V. Venkateswara Sarma (1919–2005) was an Indian historian of science, particularly the astronomy and mathematics of the Kerala school. His doctoral thesis was at the Panjab University in 1977.〔Sarma, K. V., Doctoral thesis, Panjab University, 1977.〕 He was responsible for bringing to light several of the achievements of the Kerala school.〔: 〕 He was editor of the Vishveshvaranand Indological Research Series, and published the critical edition of several source works in Sanskrit, including the Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata. He was recognised as "the greatest authority on Kerala's astronomical tradition".〔K. Chandra Hari, (Critical Evidence to Fix the Native Place of Āryabhat̟a-I ), ''Current Science'' Vol.93, 8, 25 Oct 2007〕 He was the author of several entries in the ''Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures''. As of 1994, he was the author of more than 60 books, and 145 research papers, in addition to other academic writing on Sanskrit and Indology. He continued publishing well into his late eighties, his last book being ''Science Texts in Sanskrit in Manuscripts Repositories of Kerala and Tamil Nadu'', published in 2003.〔 He died on 13 January 2005, having just completed English translations (see Ganita-yukti-bhasa) of the Yuktibhāṣā of Jyesthadeva and the Tantrasangraha of Nilakantha Somayaji.〔Kim Plofker, (Obituary notice ) in the Bulletin of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics〕 ==Bibliography== * * * . (Review ) * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「K. V. Sarma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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