Question

Please can you give me brahmagupta biography 50 to 100 words

Answer 1

Brahmagupta was a highly accomplished ancient Indian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to give rules to compute with zero. He is best remembered as the author of the theoretical treatise ‘Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta’ ("Correctly established doctrine of Brahma"). He composed his texts in elliptic verse in Sanskrit, as was common practice in Indian mathematics of his time. The ‘Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta’ was a seminal work in astronomy which went on have a deep influence not just in the development of astronomy in India, but also had a great impact on Islamic mathematics and astronomy. An orthodox Hindu, he took care not to antagonize his own religious leaders but was very bitter in criticizing the ideas advanced by rival astronomers hailing from the Jain religion. He was among the few thinkers of his era who had realized that the earth was not flat as many believed, but a sphere. He was much ahead of his contemporaries and his mathematical and astronomical calculations remained among the most accurate available for several centuries. He is believed to have written many works though only a few survive today. In addition to being an accomplished astronomer, he was also a much revered mathematician. His ‘Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta’ is the first book that mentions zero as a number and also gives rules for using zero with negative and positive numbers.