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Integrating Mathematics and History: The Scholarship of D D Kosambi

Today, D D Kosambi's significance as a historian greatly overshadows his reputation and contributions in mathematics. Kosambi simultaneously worked in both areas for much of his adult life, and to understand the body of his work either in the social sciences or in mathematics, an appreciation of the complementarity of his interests is essential. An understanding of Kosambi the historian can only be enhanced by an appreciation of Kosambi the mathematician. In a fundamental way, Kosambi embodied the multidisciplinary approach, channelling diverse interests - indeed combining them - to create scholarship of high order.

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Integrating Mathematics and History: The Scholarship of D D Kosambi

Ramakrishna Ramaswamy

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