अनन्तश्रेढी · Chapter Overview
From Mādhava's Sphuṭacandrāpti — the True Moon and the Infinite Series, taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey. This lesson is free to read.
<pre data-block="statement">What this chapter covers | Mādhava's greatest achievement. Long before Newton and Leibniz, he found that π and the sine can be expressed as INFINITE SERIES — sums that never end but close in on the true value. We read four such rules here, together with his brilliant "end-correction" for stopping the series early, and his value of π correct to ELEVEN decimal places. Remember the honest frame: Mādhava's own books on these are lost; each verse below is quoted in a later Kerala work and attributed there to him.</pre>