... rewarding if mathematicians and students of mathematicswere to make such reading a regular practice. In the introduction to his Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century, Felix Klein wrote, ... founder of the school, worked in the Bakulavihara illam in the town of Sangamagrama, a fewmiles north of Cochin. He was an Emprantiri Brahmin, then considered socially inferiorto the dominant ... The 1843 publication of their letters prompted Liouville to lay the foundations of the theory of transcendentalnumbers. The detailed table of contents at the beginning of this book may prove...