Lilavati Award
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The Lilavati Award has been instituted at the International Congress of Mathematicians
, 2010 held in Hyderabad, India, for outstanding contribution to public outreach in mathematics by an individual. It carries a citation and a cash prize of one million Indian rupees (approx. US $20,000).
Simon Singh
is the maiden winner of this Award.
The Leelavati prize is named after the 12th-century mathematical treatise "Lilavati
" devoted to arithmetic and algebra – by the Indian mathematician Bhāskara II, also known as Bhaskara Achārya. In the book the author posed, in verse form, a series of problems in (elementary) arithmetic to one Leelavati (perhaps this was his daughter) and followed them up with hints to solutions. This work appears to have been the main source of learning arithmetic and algebra in medieval India. The work was also translated into Persian and was influential in West Asia.
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union ....
, 2010 held in Hyderabad, India, for outstanding contribution to public outreach in mathematics by an individual. It carries a citation and a cash prize of one million Indian rupees (approx. US $20,000).
Simon Singh
Simon Singh
Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner....
is the maiden winner of this Award.
The Leelavati prize is named after the 12th-century mathematical treatise "Lilavati
Lilavati
Lilavati was Indian mathematician Bhāskara II's treatise on mathematics. It is the first volume of his main work Siddhānta Shiromani, Sanskrit for "Crown of treatises," alongside Bijaganita, Grahaganita and Golādhyāya.- Name :The name comes from his daughter Līlāvatī...
" devoted to arithmetic and algebra – by the Indian mathematician Bhāskara II, also known as Bhaskara Achārya. In the book the author posed, in verse form, a series of problems in (elementary) arithmetic to one Leelavati (perhaps this was his daughter) and followed them up with hints to solutions. This work appears to have been the main source of learning arithmetic and algebra in medieval India. The work was also translated into Persian and was influential in West Asia.