Aryabhata satellite
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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 person.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 is 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 Kusumapura.We do know that Aryabhata wrote AryabhatiyaⓉ in Kusumapura at the time when Pataliputra was th
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Aryabhatta
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Aryabhatta was a well-known astronomer and mathematician. He was born in the Indian state of Bihar, in the town of Kusumapura (now Patna). Despite his enormous contributions to mathematics, science, and astronomy, he has received no credit in the history of science. He authored his famous “Aryabhatiya” at the age of 25. He understood the idea of zero and how to employ huge numbers up to 10<sup18. He was the first to compute the value of ‘pi’ to the fourth decimal point with precision. He was the one who came up with the formula for computing the areas of triangles and circles.
About Aryabhatta
Aryabhatta’s birthplace and year are still conjectures based on his works and influences. It was said in one of his well-known books, Aryabhatiya, To be clear, the manuscript Aryabhatiya was published 3600 years into the Kaliyug, although his findings and writings were discovered much later. He always regarded Kusumapura, Pataliputra, which i
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Aryabhata
Indian mathematician-astronomer (476–550)
For other uses, see Aryabhata (disambiguation).
Āryabhaṭa | |
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Illustration of Āryabhaṭa | |
| Born | 476 CE Kusumapura / Pataliputra, |
| 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 Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions that i
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