Question

write a short note on mathematician aryabhatta

Answer 1

Aryabhatt was born in 476 CE in Patliputra in magadha in Bihar. He was the great mathematician - astronomer from the class age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. He is the man who invented 0and helped the world solving its many issues. It is believed that Aryabhatt was born in region between narmada and godavari of Central India. But exactly nothing is known about his birth place.

According to some researches and studies it was found that at some point of time Aryabhatt went to kusumapura for advanced studies and lived there. It is believed that Aryabhatt might have been the head of the nalanda University as it had an astronomical observatory at that time. Aryabhatt set up an observatory at the sun temple taregana, bihar. He studied both Hindu and Buddhist literature there.

Aryabhatt's major work comprises of mathematics and astronomy. Most of the Aryabhatt's work can be known from aryabhatiya. His work in mathematics and astronomy is extensively referred in Indian mathematics literature and able to be part of modern mathematics also. If we see the mathematical section of Aryabhatt we will see his work in arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry. Along with these major sections of mathematics it also contains the work done by him in continued fraction, Quadratic equation, sum of power series and sine tables

Answer 2

ĀryabhaṭaBorn 476 CEKusumapura (Pataliputra) (present day Patna)[1]Died 550 CEResidence IndiaAcademic backgroundInfluences Surya SiddhantaAcademic workEra Gupta eraMain interests Mathematics, astronomyNotable works Āryabhaṭīya, Arya-siddhantaNotable ideas Explanation of lunar eclipse and solar eclipse, rotation of Earth on its axis, reflection of light by 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 yearInfluenced Lalla, Bhaskara I, Brahmagupta, VarahamihiraAryabhata (IAST: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[2][3] (476–550 CE)[4][5] was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old)[6] and the Arya-siddhanta.