Jinamanjari 1996 09 No 14

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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He is a proliferous writer in both Hindi and English. He has a vast knowledge of Indian languages including Sanskrit, Prakrit, Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati. He is also familiar with Russian, German, and French.
L.C. Jain is an intelligent, as well as an industrious person. The depth of his knowledge has diverged from regional to national, and even to international dimensions. He is actively associated with various religious, social, and scientific organisations. He is a life member of the Digambara Jaina Akhila Bharatiya Vidva Parishad, the Einstein Foundation International (Nagpur), and the Indian Society for the History of Mathematics. As well, he was the Chairman of the Board of Studies in Mathematics (University of Saugar), and the Senator of Vikram University (Ujjain). He actively participated in the Summer School on Galois Theory organised by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Bombay) in 1964.
Researches and writing of Shri Jain can be broadly classified into two categories: 1) On Einstein's Unified Field Theory (and related topics), and 2) Advanced Learning on Indian Mathematical Sciences (including Jaina mathematics). The first group comprises of his twenty-four research papers published in various national and international journals. This has been carried out by him independently, and also along with the collaboration of R.C. Jaiswal, R.C. Soni, K. Keller, S.S. Lishk, Anupam Kumar, M. Jain, R.M. Keller, R.K. Sharma, and M. Samiuddin. The second groups includes as many as seventy research papers of Shri Jain which are written in Hindi and English, and have been published in the Indian Journal of History of Science, The Jaina Antiquary, Arhat Vacana, Tulsi Prajna, etc.
The Ganitasurasamgraha of Mahaviracarya was first translated into English by Professor M. Rangacarya in 1912. By 1963, L.C. Jain translated this text into Hindi, and it was published by Jain Samskrti Samraksaka Sangha (Sholapur). Professor Jain has also written two books entitled Basic
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