Sankara Variar

Sankara Variyar (IAST: Śaṅkara Vāriyar; c. 1500 – c. 1560[1]) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. His family were employed as temple-assistants in the temple at Tṛkkuṭaveli near modern Ottapalam.[2]

  1. ^ Joseph, George Gheverghese (2009), A Passage to Infinity: Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact, SAGE Publications India, p. 21, ISBN 9788132104810.
  2. ^ Plofker, Kim (2009). Mathematics in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 220, 324.