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I work on the mathematical practices testified by Sanskrit treatises and commentaries of the 5-12 centuries. I am currently working on a critical edition of Caturveda Pṛthūdakṣvamin (fl. 860 )'s commentary on the mathematical chapter of the *Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta*. I also explore 19 and 20th century histories of mathematics in India written outside and within the Indian subcontinent, underlying notably their political context. I am also interested in the way critical editions and translations of mathematical texts were elaborated and then circulated and read and the influence this has had on present day historiographies.
Mon travail porte sur les pratiques mathématiques dont témoignent traités et commentaires sanskrits entre le 5ème et le 12ème siècle après notre ère. Je prépare en ce moment une édition critique du commentaire de Caturveda Pṛthūdakṣvamin (fl. 860 ) au Chapitre mathématique du {Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta}. Je m’intéresse aussi à la manière dont on a écrit l’histoire des mathématiques du sous-continent indien, depuis l’Europe du 18ème siècle, jusqu’à l’Inde d’aujourd’hui. Ce travail s’intéresse aux controverses et aux aspects politiques de ces textes, et à la manière dont ce sont forgées des éditions critiques et des traductions. J’ai ainsi pu mettre en lumière qu’au cours du 19ème siècle est né une littérature d’histoire des mathématiques en Inde écrite par des indiens, progressivement mû par une volonté nationaliste.

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Navigating the sea of histories of mathematics

Agathe Keller
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2022, The Place of Archimedes in World History: Arguments and Counterarguments., 47 (3-4), pp.404-425. ⟨10.1080/03080188.2022.2130595⟩
Journal articles halshs-03921183v1
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Shedding light on diverse cultures of mathematical practices in South Asia: Early Sanskrit mathematical texts in conversation with modern elementary Tamil mathematical curricula

Agathe Keller
Journal of Ethnographic Theory - HAU, 2019, 9 (1), pp.113-125. ⟨10.1086/703886⟩
Journal articles halshs-02427218v1
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« Mathématiques védiques », espoirs fin de siècle d'une modernité alternative

Agathe Keller
Histoire de la recherche contemporaine : la revue du Comité pour l’histoire du CNRS , 2018, Champs et contrechamps de la musicologie d'aujourd'hui, VII (1), pp.97-106. ⟨10.4000/hrc.2187⟩
Journal articles halshs-02427205v1
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The Bakhshālī Manuscript: A Response to the Bodleian Library's Radiocarbon Dating

Agathe Keller , Kim Plofker , Takao Hayashi , Clemency Montelle , Dominik Wujastyk
History of Science in South Asia, 2017, 5 (1), pp.134 - 150. ⟨10.18732/H2XT07⟩
Journal articles halshs-01666444v1
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The mathematical chapter of the Āryabhaṭīya: A compilation of mnemonic rules?

Agathe Keller
Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, 2016, Writings and Orality (ed. MC Bustamante), 75, pp.75-100
Journal articles halshs-01404712v1
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Commencements et origines en mathématiques; des rituels pour conjurer l'abime?

Agathe Keller
Esquisse(s), 2015, Commencements, pp.63-72
Journal articles halshs-01484795v1
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Bhāskara I's versified solutions of a linear indeterminate equation

Agathe Keller
Indian Journal of History of Science, 2014, 49 (2), pp.97-126
Journal articles halshs-00760116v2
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George Peacock's Arithmetic in the Changing Landscape of the History of Mathematics in India

Agathe Keller
Indian Journal of History of Science, 2011, 46 (2), pp.205-233
Journal articles halshs-00149552v3
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Making diagrams speak, in Bhâskara I's commentary of the Âryabhatîya

Agathe Keller
Historia Mathematica, 2003, 32 (3), pp.275-302
Journal articles halshs-00000445v2

Reasoning on Sines: Pṛthūdaka’s commentary on Brahmagupta’s Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta (BSS.21.17-23)

Agathe Keller
Practices of Reasoning in the Mathematical Sciences, Dec 2017, Paris, France
Conference papers halshs-01676433v1

What are the proofs of Prthudaka’s commentary on the mathematical of the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta? An exploration of his explanations of Brahmagupta's rules on progressions.

Agathe Keller
Commentaries, a Workhop, Karine Chemla, Mark Geller, Glenn W. Most, Aug 2016, Berlin, Germany
Conference papers halshs-01427304v1

Modes of Self-orientalism in « Vedic Mathematics »

Agathe Keller
7th ESHS Conference, Sep 2016, Prague, Czech Republic
Conference papers halshs-01427284v1

A Historiographical Exploration of Āryabahṭa's verses on Indeterminate Problems of the First Degree

Agathe Keller
Writing histories of ancient mathematics – Reflecting on past practices and opening the future, 18th – 21st centuries, Chemla, Keller, and Proust, Oct 2016, Paris, France
Conference papers halshs-01427248v1
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Comment on a écrit les nombres dans le sous- continent indien, histoires et enjeux

Agathe Keller
Comment on a écrit les nombres dans le sous-continent indien, histoires et enjeux, Nov 2006, Paris, France. pp.65-82
Conference papers halshs-00150726v1
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Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries

Agathe Keller
Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences, De Gruyter, pp.73-116, 2023, ⟨10.1515/9783111343556-005⟩
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Multiplying Integers: on the diverse practices of medieval Sanskrit authors

Agathe Keller , Catherine Morice-Singh
Chemla, Karine; Keller, Agathe et Proust, Christine. Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, 6, Springer WSAWM; Springer International Publishing, pp.495-552, 2022, Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1_9⟩
Book sections halshs-01006135v2
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Characterizing a Sanskrit Mathematical Commentary: An exploration of Pṛthūdaka‘s Vāsanābhāṣya on progressions

Agathe Keller
Karine Chemla; Glenn Most. Mathematical Commentaries in The Ancient World. A global perspective, Cambridge University Press, pp.96-140, 2022, 978-1-108-83957. ⟨10.1017/9781108884488.003⟩
Book sections halshs-03101614v1

Shaping a Mathematical Text in Sanskrit: H. T. Colebrooke, Sudhākara Dvivedin, and Pṛthūdaka’s commentary on the twelfth chapter of the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta

Agathe Keller
Keller, Agathe; Chemla, Karine. Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient World Text Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Ancient Scholarly Texts, inPress, WSAWM
Book sections halshs-03101314v1
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History of Numerical Tables in Sanskrit Sources

Agathe Keller , Koolakodlu Mahesh , Clemency Montelle
Tournes, Dominique. History of Numerical Tables, Springer, In press, WSAWM
Book sections halshs-01006137v1
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Reconstruire l'exécution des opérations élémentaires dans les sources sanskrites médiévales: des tableaux numériques éphémères?

Agathe Keller
Artigue, Michèle et Husson, Mathieu. Actes de la 13ème journée d'étude-Tables, Tableaux, Graphiques, IREM-Université Denis Dierot-Paris 7, pp.33-46, 2015, Reconstruire l'exécution des opérations élémentaires dans les sources sanskrites médiévales: des tableaux numériques éphémères?
Book sections halshs-00986997v1
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Ordering operations in square root extractions

Agathe Keller
Chemla, Karine and Virbel, Jacques. Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science, Springer (Archimedes), pp.183-218, 2015
Book sections halshs-00506929v2
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History of mathematical education in ancient, medieval and pre modern India (within the Chapter: Mathematics Education in Oriental Antiquity and Middle Ages)

Agathe Keller
Karp and Schubring. Handbook on the History of Mathematics education, Springer, pp.70-83, 2014
Book sections halshs-01006132v3
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Is "Hindu mathematics" a European idea? Gleanings on the politics of the history of arithmetics

Agathe Keller
Publicacions de la residència d'investigadors, 38, pp.332, 2013, 978-84-931588-4-2
Book sections halshs-00197160v1
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Dispelling mathematical doubts. Assessing the
mathematical correctness of algorithms in Bhâskara's commentary on the mathematical chapter of the Âryabhatîya.

Agathe Keller
Chemla, Karine. The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions, Cambridge University Press, pp.487-508, 2012
Book sections halshs-00151013v4
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Overlooking mathematical justifications in the Sanskrit tradition: the nuanced case of G. F. Thibaut

Agathe Keller
History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions, Cambridge University Press, pp.260-273, 2012
Book sections halshs-00150736v2
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On Sanskrit commentaries dealing with mathematics (Vth-XIIth century)

Agathe Keller
Bretelle-Establet, Florence. Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, pp.211-244, 2010
Book sections halshs-00189339v4
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Qu'est ce que les mathématiques ? Les réponses taxinomiques de Bhåskara, un commentateur, mathématicien et astronome indien du VIIe siècle

Agathe Keller
Kimé. Sciences et Frontières, pp.29-61, 2007
Book sections halshs-00151008v1
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Chapitre sur le pulvérisateur chez Bhâskara I

Chapter on the pulverizer in Bhâskara'I work

Agathe Keller
Expounding the mathematical seed, Bhâskara and the Ganitapada of the Âryabhatîya, Birkhaüser, 2006
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Un commentaire indien du VIIème siècle, Bhâskara et le ganitapada de l'aryabhatiya

Agathe Keller
Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences. Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, 2000. Français. ⟨NNT : ⟩
Theses halshs-00006349v1