Chennas Narayanan Namboodiripad (born 1428) was a 15th-century

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. Narayanan Namboodiripad was considered to be an authority in the fields of ''Vaasthusaastram'' (Indian Architecture), Mathematics and

m. He authored a book titled ''Thanthra Samuchayam'' which is still considered as the authentic reference manual in the field of temple architecture and rituals. Other contributions to mathematics include: * A method of arriving at a circle starting with a square, and successively making it a regular octagon, a regular 16-sided, a 32-sided, 64-sided polygons, etc. * Co-ordinate system of fixing points in a plane. * Converting a square to a regular hexagon having approximately equal area. * Finding the width of a regular octagon, given the perimeter.

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https://www.namboothiri.com/articles/thanthram.htm

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