Madhava is another name for Vishnu and appears as the 72nd, 167th and 735th names in the Vishnu sahasranama.
According to Adi Sankara' s commentary on the Vishnu sahasranama, Madhava means the consort of Ma, or Mahalaksmi, the Mother of the universe. Alternatively, it means on who is fit to be known through Madhu-vidya or can mean One who is the Lord of "Ma" or knowledge.
Additionally, it means One who was born in the clan of Madhu. Reference: Cited from Sri Vishnu Sahasranama, commentary by Sri Sankaracharya, trasnlated by Swami Tapasyananda, available at Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai. available at India web site: http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org and US site: http://www.vedanta.com.
Madhava (माधव) of Sangamagrama (1350-1425) was a major mathematician of the Kerala school who is considered the father of mathematical analysis for having taken the decisive step from the finite procedures of ancient mathematics to treat their limit-passage to infinity, which is the kernel of modern classical analysis.
Using his techniques, he gave a value of the number pi:3.14159265359
Madhava of Sangamagramma was born near Cochin on the coast in the Kerala state in southwestern India.
Madhava discovered the series equivalent to the Maclaurin expansions of sin x, cos x, and arctan x around 1400, which is over two hundred years before they were rediscovered in Europe.
Madhava also gave a table of almost accurate values of half-sine chords for twenty-four arcs drawn at equal intervals in a quarter of a given circle.
Madhava Kripa Prabhu was a member of the Mayapur community since 1998 until he left this world in July 2002.
Madhava Kripa Das, a disciple of H. Jayapataka Swami, passed away on the holy Sayana Ekadasi Day, the 20th of July 2002 in a hospital in Madrid, Spain.
Sri Madhava Kripa Das is a sincere devotee of Lord Sri Krishna.
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