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Name
  
Chennas Namboodiripad


Role
  
Mathematician

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Chennas Narayanan Namboodiripad (born 1428) was a 15th-century mathematician from Kerala, India.

Narayanan Namboodiripad was considered to be an authority in the fields of Vaasthusaastram (Indian Architecture), Mathematics and Tantram. He authored a book titled Thanthra Samuchayam which is still considered as the authentic reference manual in the field of temple architecture and rituals.

Other contributions to mathematics include:

  • A method of arriving at a circle starting with a square, and successively making it a regular octagon, a regular 16-sided, a 32-sided, 64-sided polygons, etc.
  • Co-ordinate system of fixing points in a plane.
  • Converting a square to a regular hexagon having approximately equal area.
  • Finding the width of a regular octagon, given the perimeter.

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    Chennas Narayanan Namboodiripad Wikipedia
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