Question

Who was Apastamba? What was his contribution to Mathematics?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Baudhayana (800 BC - 740 BC) is said to be the original Mathematician behind the Pythagoras theorem. Pythagoras theorem was indeed known much before Pythagoras, and it was Indians who discovered it at least 1000 years before Pythagoras was born! The credit for authoring the earliest Sulba Sutras goes to him.

Answer 2

Āpastamba Dharmasūtra is a Sanskrit text and one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE.