Indian mathematician and astronomer (c.1114–1185)
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.
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 gr…
Sourced, dated quotes from Bhāskara II
On a plane surface describe a circle of any specified radius with a pair of compasses. Mark on its circumference 360 degrees.
Let ‘so much as’ (yavattavat) be put for the value of the unknown quantity, and doing with that precisely what is proposed in the instance [i.e.
The length of the earth’s shadow, and its breadth at the part traversed by the moon, may be easily found by proportion.
If the earth were supported by any material substance or living creature, then that would require a second supporter, and for that second a third would be required.
The property of attraction is inherent in the Earth.
No platforms connected yet.
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Similar profiles worth watching
India
.jpg?width=1200)
