Derivation and Revelation: The Legitimacy of Mathematical Models in Indian Cosmology

Mathematics and the Divine

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 61-76

  Plofker, Kim ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-044450328-2/50004-7     Document Type: Chapter

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