Madhava of Sangamagrama (c.1340 – c.1425), was an Indian mathematician-astronomer from the town of Sangamagrama (present day Irinjalakuda) near Thrissur, Kerala, India. He is considered the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. He was the first to use infinite series approximations for a range of trigonometric functions, which has been called the decisive step onward from the finite procedures of ancient mathematics to treat their limit-passage to infinity.[1] His discoveries opened the doors to what has today come to be known as Mathematical Analysis.[4] One of the greatest mathematician-astronomers of the Middle Ages, Madhava made pioneering contributions to the study of infinite series, calculus, trigonometry, geometry, and algebra.
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