Jayadeva (c. 1000 CE) was an Indian
mathematician
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, who further developed the cyclic method (
Chakravala method)
that was called by
Hermann Hankel "the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before
Lagrange (18th century)". He also made significant contributions to
combinatorics.
Jayadeva's works are
lost, and he is known only from a 20-verse quotation in Udaya-divakara ''Sundari'' (c. 1073), a commentary on
Bhaskara I's ''Laghu-bhaskariya''. This means that Jayadeva must have lived sometime before 1073,
possibly around 1000 CE.
See also
*
List of Indian mathematicians
References
11th-century Indian mathematicians
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