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Aryabhata
Famous as : Born: 476 CE prob. :Ashmaka Died: 550 CE Era: Gupta era Region : India Main interests: Mathematics, Astronomy Major works: aryabhatiya, Arya-siddhanta
Aryabhatta, also known as Aryabhatta I or Aryabhata (476-550?), is a famous Indian mathematician and astronomer, born in a place called Taregana, in Bihar (though some people do not agree with the evidence). Taregana which literally means songs of stars in Bihari, is a small place situated nearly 30 km from Patna, which was then known as Kusumpura later Pataliputra, the capital of the Gupta Empire. This is the very empire that has been dubbed as the “golden period in Indian history”. The best introduction to the genius of past is seen in the words of Bhaskara I who said, “Aryabhatta is the master who, after reaching the furthest shores and plumbing the inmost depths of the sea of ultimate knowledge of mathematics, kinematics and spherics, handed over the three sciences to the learned world” The place-value system, first seen in the 3rd-century Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in place in his work. While he did not use a symbol for zero, the French mathematician Georges Ifrah explains that knowledge of zero was implicit in Aryabhata's place-value system as a place holder for the powers of ten with null coefficients[13] However, Aryabhata did not use the Brahmi numerals. Continuing the Sanskritic tradition from Vedic times, he used letters of the alphabet to denote numbers, expressing quantities, such as the table of sines in a mnemonic form Aryabhata worked on the approximation for pi , and may have come to the conclusion that \pi is irrational. In the second part of the Aryabhatiyam (ganitapada 10)
Place value system and zero
Approximation of PI
Famous as : Born: 476 CE prob. :Ashmaka Died: 550 CE Era: Gupta era Region : India Main interests: Mathematics, Astronomy Major works: aryabhatiya, Arya-siddhanta
Aryabhatta, also known as Aryabhatta I or Aryabhata (476-550?), is a famous Indian mathematician and astronomer, born in a place called Taregana, in Bihar (though some people do not agree with the evidence). Taregana which literally means songs of stars in Bihari, is a small place situated nearly 30 km from Patna, which was then known as Kusumpura later Pataliputra, the capital of the Gupta Empire. This is the very empire that has been dubbed as the “golden period in Indian history”. The best introduction to the genius of past is seen in the words of Bhaskara I who said, “Aryabhatta is the master who, after reaching the furthest shores and plumbing the inmost depths of the sea of ultimate knowledge of mathematics, kinematics and spherics, handed over the three sciences to the learned world” The place-value system, first seen in the 3rd-century Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in place in his work. While he did not use a symbol for zero, the French mathematician Georges Ifrah explains that knowledge of zero was implicit in Aryabhata's place-value system as a place holder for the powers of ten with null coefficients[13] However, Aryabhata did not use the Brahmi numerals. Continuing the Sanskritic tradition from Vedic times, he used letters of the alphabet to denote numbers, expressing quantities, such as the table of sines in a mnemonic form Aryabhata worked on the approximation for pi , and may have come to the conclusion that \pi is irrational. In the second part of the Aryabhatiyam (ganitapada 10)
Place value system and zero
Approximation of PI