Virasena

Virasena

Virasena was an 8th century mathematician in India who gave the derivation of the volume of a frustum by a sort of infinite procedure. He also dealt with logarithms to base 2 ("ardhaccheda") and knew its laws, and was also the first to deal with logarithms to base 3 ("trakacheda") and base 4 ("caturthacheda").

ee also

*Indian mathematics
*Indian mathematicians


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