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Something wrong?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.
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, 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.
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About this person
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.
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