Virasena was a 9th century Indian mathematician who gave the derivation of the volume of a frustum by a sort of infinite procedure. He also dealt with the logarithm to base 2 (ardhaccheda) and knew its laws. See also. Indian mathematicians ...

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Baudhayana, (circa 800 BC), was a Vedic Indian learned man, likely a priest and mathematician (although not in the modern sense). He is the author of one of the earliest and most important Sulbasutras — appendices to the Vedas giving rules for the construction of altars — called the Baudhayana Sulbasutra, which contained several important mathematical results. The Baudhayana Sulbasutra contains one of the earliest references to what is known today as the Pythagorean theorem. The rope which is stretched across the diagonal of a square produces an area d ...

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Gopala was an Indian mathematician, who studied the Fibonacci numbers in 1135. See also. Indian mathematicians Krishna, protector of cattle Indian mathematicians, Krishna, protector of cattle Gopala - External link. The Rhythm of Poetry ...

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Brahmagupta (ब्रह्मगुप्त) (598-668) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was the head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain, and during his tenure there wrote two texts on mathematics and astronomy: the Brahmasphutasiddhanta in 628, and the Khandakhadyaka in 665. The Brahmasphutasiddhanta is the earliest known text to treat zero as a number in its own right. It goes well beyond that, however, stating rules for arithmetic on negative numbers and zero which are quite close to the ...

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Bhāskara (1114-1185), also called Bhāskara II and BhāskarāAchārya ("Bhaskara the teacher") was an Indian mathematician. He was born near Bijjada Bida in Bijapur district, Karnataka and became head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain, continuing the mathematical tradition of Varahamihira and Brahmagupta. In many ways, Bhaskaracharya represents the peak of mathematical knowledge in the 12th century. He reached an understanding of the number systems and solving equations, which was not to be achieved anywh ...

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Parameshvara (परमेश्वर) (1360-1425) was a major Indian mathematician of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school. He presented a series form of the sine function that is equivalent to its Taylor series expansion. Parameshvara - Birth. Paramesvara was born into a namboothiri brahmin family who were astrologers and astronomers. The family home was Vatasseri (also called Vatasreni) in the village of Alattur, Kerala. Paramesvara's coordinates with respect to Ujjain puts it at latitu ...

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Ananta is Sanskrit for infinity. It is equated with the Supreme Brahman - infinitely powerful and so infinitely free. It is bigger than any quantity that can be imagined; it is bigger than any finite number. Infinity is one of the fundamental axioms upon which contemporary mathematics is based.

Sanskrit grammar and interpretation in ancient India were closely linked to the handling of high value numbers. Studies relating to poetry and metrics initiated sastragnaas or scientists to both arithmetic and grammar. Grammarians were just as competent at calculations as professional mathematicians. Indian sastragnaas or scientists, philosophers, astronomers and cosmographers - in order to develop their arithmetical, metaphysical and cosmological speculations concerning ever higher numbers - became at once mathematicians, grammarians and poets.

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Hemachandra Suri (हेमचन्द्र सूरी) (correct Sanskrit spelling Hemacandra Sürí) (1089 -1172) was one of the greatest scholars of his time. He wrote on many subjects: grammar, philosophy, tradition, and contemporary history. One of his best known works is the Tri-shashthi-shalaka- purusha-charitra, the lives of the 63 illustrious persons in Jainism. After having written this, he composed an appendix to it (hence called "Parishista-parvan"). This appendix, also called "Sthaviravali-charitra ...

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Aryabhata (आर्यभट) Āryabhaṭa) is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in 476 AD in Ashmaka but later lived in Kusumapura, which his commentator Bhāskara I (629 AD) identifies with Pataliputra (modern Patna). His book, the Āryabhatīya, presented astronomical and mathematical theories in which the Earth was taken to be spinning on its axis and the periods of the planets were given with respect to the sun (in other words, it was heliocentric).He believes that the Mo ...

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Achyuta Pisharati (1550–1621) was a renowned Sanskrit grammarian, astrologer and mathematician of his time. He was a student of Jyestadeva and a member of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school. He is remembered mostly for his part in the composition of his student Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri's devotional poem, Narayaneeyam. Achyuta Pisharati - Works. He discovered the technique of 'the reduction of the ecliptic'. He authored Sphuta-nirnaya (sphuta roughly meaning < ...

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Katyayana may refer to: Katyayana (Buddhist), a disciple of Gautama Buddha. Katyayana (mathematician), an Indian mathematician. Other related archivesGautama Buddha, Indian, Katyayana (Buddhist), Katyayana (mathematician), mathematician

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Jagannatha (1690-1750) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician in the court of Jai Singh. Other related archives1690, 1750, Indian, astronomer, mathematician

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Madhava is a name that can refer to: Vishnu The fourteenth century Indian mathematician, Madhava of Sangamagrama Other related archivesMadhava of Sangamagrama, Vishnu

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Lalla (720 - 790) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who belonged to a family of astronomers. His most famous work was entitled Shishyadhividdhidatantra. Interestingly, he did not believe in the rotation of the Earth. He is also known for having published the earliest known description of a Perpetuum Mobile in Shishyadhividdhidatantra. Lalla - Publications. Jyotisaratnakosa. Most popular astronomy book in India for 300 years. Shishyadhividdhidatantra Ano ...

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Bhaskara I (c. 600 - c. 680) was a 7th century Indian mathematician, who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work. See also. Bhaskara II Bhaskara II Bhaskara I - Reference. Biography at the MacTutor archive ...

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Varahamihira (505 in Ujjain – 587) was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. Varahamihira worked as one of the Navaratnas for Chandragupta Vikramaditya. His book Pancasiddhantika (or Pancha-Siddhantika, The Five Astronomical Canons) dated 575 AD gives us information about older Indian texts which are now lost. The work is a treatise on ma ...

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Bases Base 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,16, 20, 24, 26, 27, 30, 32, 36, 60, 64 The Abjad numerals are a decimal numeral system which was used in the Arabic-speaking world prior to the use of the Hindu-Arabic numerals, which are actually of Indian origin and were spread by Arab and Persian mathematicians in the 9th century AD. In the Abjad system, a smaller subset of the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet are assigned numerical values. For example, the first letter of the Arabic alphabe ...

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Augustus De Morgan (June 27, 1806 - March 18, 1871) was an Indian-born British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and was the first to introduce the term, and make rigorous the idea of mathematical induction.1 De Morgan crater on the Moon is named after him. Augustus De Morgan - Biography. Augustus De Morgan - Childhood. Augustus De Morgan was born June 27, 18062 in ...

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Spherical trigonometry was largely developed by Muslims, and systematized (along with plane trigonometry) by Persian mathematician Nasir al-Din Tusi (Nasireddin) in the 13th century. An important figure of the Islamic mathematics was Al-Khwarizmi, the ninth century Persian astronomer of the caliph of Baghdad. He wrote several important books and it is today known for introducing the place-value decimal system, which we use today. The system was developed in India in the 6th century, but it was known to Europeans only in the 13th centu ...

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