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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by seanhunter on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @10:26AM (#41914649)
What about Madhava of Sangamagrama[1], who (among other things) described various Taylor expansions for trigonometric functions (including an estimate of the error term) in the 14th century? (ie 300 years before James Gregory discovered the method for the Taylor expansion in the West).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhava_of_Sangamagrama

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