Krishna Venkateswara Sarma[1] (1919–2005) was an Indian historian of science, particularly the astronomy and mathematics of the Kerala school.

[2] He was editor of the Vishveshvaranand Indological Research Series, and published the critical edition of several source works in Sanskrit, including the Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata.

Sarma studied chemistry and physics at Maharaja's College of Science in Thiruvananthapuram, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1940.

[4] He retired from Panjab University in 1980, but the next year accepted the position of honorary professor of Sanskrit at the Adyar Library Research Center.

[8] He died on 13 January 2005, having just completed English translations (see Ganita-yukti-bhasa) of the Yuktibhāṣā of Jyesthadeva and the Tantrasangraha of Nilakantha Somayaji.

The bibliography is available at the following link: During the last decade of his life, Prof. Sarma began to convert his personal library into an institution.