Jambusāgaranagara (also written as Jambūsāronagara{{cite book, last=Pingree, first=David, title=Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Volume 1, url=https://archive.org/details/censusofexactsci01ping, year=1970, publisher=American Philosophical Society, isbn=978-0-87169-081-4 (see p.81 – 84)) is a place or region in

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where a school of

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s and

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s flourished during the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries CE. The location of this place has not been definitely identified. Gangadhara, son of Govardhana and grandson of Divakara and younger brother of Vishnu and Laksmidhara, was a prominent

of the Jambusagaranagara school who wrote Ganitamrtasagari a

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on Lilavati of Bhaskara II and who flourished around 1420 CE. Govardhana and Divakara were themselves able mathematicians.

Schools of mathematics

Historians of mathematics have identified several schools of mathematics that flourished in different parts of

during the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries CE. It has also been noted that most of the mathematical activities during this period were concentrated in these schools. The schools were at places identified by the following names: * Jambusagaranagara * Dadhigrama (

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Nandigrama Nandigrama is the name of a location, place or region somewhere in Western India where a school of astronomers and mathematicians flourished during the thirteenth-eighteenth centuries CE. David Pingree, one of America's leading historians of the ...

* Parthapura (

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Golagrama Golagrama was a village or region in India associated with several medieval Indian astronomers, astrologers and mathematicians. Presently there is no place bearing the name Golagrama anywhere in India. It is known that Golagrama was situated in Ma ...

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