# Bhāskara II

> A 12th-century polymath who ran the cosmic observatory at Ujjain - medieval India's mathematical center - and produced work so precise in algebra, astronomy, and planetary motion that scholars still call him the greatest mathematician of his era.

*Indian mathematician and astronomer (c.1114-1185)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** India
- **Born:** 1114
- **Died:** 1185
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1114 in Vijjadavida, in the Satpura ranges of what is now Maharashtra, Bhāskara came from a Deshastha Brahmin line thick with scholars and astronomers. He rose to lead the observatory at Ujjain, the old mathematical heart of India, and around midcentury completed his Siddhānta-Śiromaṇi - "Crown of Treatises" - a four-part work spanning arithmetic (Līlāvatī), algebra (Bījagaṇita), planetary mathematics (Grahagaṇita), and spheres (Golādhyāya). Each section doubled as a standalone text. He also wrote the Karaṇā Kautūhala. An inscription in a Maharashtra temple, said to be carved by his grandson Changadeva, traces his lineage forward and back across generations. He died in 1185, leaving a body of work that Henry Colebrooke would translate into English six centuries later - the first European rendering of the mathematics that had quietly anchored an entire tradition.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Astronomy, #Medieval Era

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