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Mahaviracharya
Mahaviracharya was a Jain mathematician of the ninth century who worked at the court of the Rashtrakuta emperor Amoghavarsha I. About 850 he wrote the Ganitasarasangraha, a comprehensive Sanskrit treatise on arithmetic, algebra and geometry. He gave rules for operations with zero, for fractions and for permutations and combinations, and his work was widely used in southern India.
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