Article ID: CBB477760811

Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya: A collaborative couple in mathematics from Nepal (2023)

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Within the history of mathematics and mathematics education in Nepal, Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya are relatively well-known figures for their two books Śiśubodha Taraṅgiṇī and Līlāvatī. This is despite there being almost no archival or manuscript materials offering a window into their lives: we have no letters, notebooks, diaries, or school records. Rather than focusing on either individual in isolation, in this article we present an argument for considering the Dhananjayas as an analytically indivisible collaborative couple in mathematics. Of the two aforementioned books, one is attributed to Chandrakala and the other to Tikaram; but in fact, both are translations of the same Sanskrit source text, Līlāvatī, into Nepali. By comparing the mathematical contents of these two works, which were published within a few years of each other, we explore what it means to be an author or translator of a mathematical text and propose different models of spousal collaboration which could plausibly have been adopted by the Dhananjayas. In the absence of documentary evidence, the impossibility of delineating each individual’s contributions removes the temptation to focus exclusively on apportioning credit. Instead, we offer the alternative perspective of considering what labour must have been undertaken to bring their books to publication.

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Authors & Contributors
Schubring, Gert
Boistel, Guy
Csiszar, Alex
García-Sancho, Miguel
Howard, Nicole Christine
Howarth, Richard John
Journals
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Social Studies of Science
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Books on Demand
Johns Hopkins University Press
Springer
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Scientific collaboration
Authorship
Scholarly publishing
Mathematics
Communication of scientific ideas
Women in science
People
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Erdös, Paul
Heesch, Heinrich
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme le Français de
Adcock, Robert J.
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
16th century
17th century
Places
Nepal
France
Germany
Latin America
Spain
United States
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
France. Bureau des Longitudes
History of Science Society
Human Genome Project
Observatoire de Paris
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
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