Aryabhatta biography mathematician
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Biography
Aryabhata is also known as Aryabhata I to distinguish him from the later mathematician of the same name who lived about 400 years later. Al-Biruni has not helped in understanding Aryabhata's life, for he seemed to believe that there were two different mathematicians called Aryabhata living at the same time. He therefore created a confusion of two different Aryabhatas which was not clarified until 1926 when B Datta showed that al-Biruni's two Aryabhatas were one and the same individ.We know the year of Aryabhata's birth since he tells us that he was twenty-three years of age when he wrote AryabhatiyaⓉ which he finished in 499. We have given Kusumapura, thought to be close to Pataliputra (which was refounded as Patna in Bihar in 1541), as the place of Aryabhata's birth but this fryst vatten far from certain, as is even the location of Kusumapura itself. As Parameswaran writes in [26]:-
... no final verdict can be given regarding the locations of Asmakajanapada and Kusumapur•
Aryabhata
Indian mathematician-astronomer (476–550)
For other uses, see Aryabhata (disambiguation).
Āryabhaṭa
Illustration of Āryabhaṭa
Born 476 CE Kusumapura / Pataliputra,
Gupta Empire
(present-day Patna, Bihar, India)[1]Died 550 CE (aged 73–74) [2] Influences Surya Siddhanta Era Gupta era Main interests Mathematics, astronomy Notable works Āryabhaṭīya, Arya-siddhanta Notable ideas Explanation of lunar eclipse and solar eclipse, rotation of Earth on its axis, reflection of light by the Moon, sinusoidal functions, solution of single variable quadratic equation, value of π correct to 4 decimal places, diameter of Earth, calculation of the length of sidereal year Influenced Lalla, Bhaskara I, Brahmagupta, Varahamihira Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[3][4] (476–550 CE)[5][6] was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of
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Aryabhata Biography, Contributions, Life History, Inventions
Aryabhatta (476–550 CE) is regarded as a pioneer of mathematical astronomy in ancient India whose work is available to modern scholars. His works include the Aryabhatiya and the Arya Siddhanta.Among other things, Aryabhatta calculated the closest approximate value of ‘pi’ and he was the first to explain that the moon and planets shine due to reflected sunlight and made major contributions to the fields of trigonometry and algebra.
Aryabhatta Early Life
Aryabhatta (476–550 CE) was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and astronomy.
Aryabhatta Education and Career
Aryabhatta studied at Kusumapura (Patliputra) for advanced studies.
- Given that Nalanda University was located in Pataliputra and had an astronomical observatory, it is possible that Aryabhatta was the head of Nalanda University at that time.
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