Brahmagupta (brä'məg
p`tə), c.598–c.660, Indian mathematician and astronomer. He wrote in verse the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta [improved system of Brahma], a standard work on astronomy containing two chapters on mathematics that were translated into English by H. T. Colebrooke in Algebra … from the Sanskrit of Brahmagupta (1817). A shorter treatise, The Khandakhadyaka (tr. 1934), expounded the astronomical system of Aryabhata Aryabhata (är'yəbhŭt`ə), c.476–550, Hindu mathematician and astronomer.
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p`tə), c.598–c.660, Indian mathematician and astronomer. He wrote in verse the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta [improved system of Brahma], a standard work on astronomy containing two chapters on mathematics that were translated into English by H. T. Colebrooke in Algebra … from the Sanskrit of Brahmagupta (1817). A shorter treatise, The Khandakhadyaka (tr. 1934), expounded the astronomical system of Aryabhata Aryabhata (är'yəbhŭt`ə), c.476–550, Hindu mathematician and astronomer...... Click the link for more information. .
Brahmagupta
(born 598—died c. 665, possibly Bhillamala, Rajasthan, India) Indian mathematician and astronomer. His principal work, the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta (“The Opening of the Universe”), most of which deals with planetary motion, also contains important proofs of various geometrical theorems on quadratic equations, the geometry of right triangles, and the properties of geometric solids.
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