Brahmagupta contribution to mathematics

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About 1500 years ago, in 628 A.D., a book called the Brahmasphutasiddhanta was published in India. Over the next few hundred years, it would cause a revolution within the world of mathematics that slowly spread across the entire world. Sixth and seventh century India was a hotbed for scientific and mathematical innovation, and the basic numerical system that we use today developed in this time and place. However, even in that exciting and progressive environment, this book stood out among the rest. It was written by a brilliant mathematician and astronomer named Brahmagupta, and in it, he developed most of the rules that we still use to work with the numeral zero. The remarkable life of Brahmagupta began in 598 AD in northwestern India. He spent most of his life living near the modern Indian city of Bhinmal, which was then known as Bhillamala. It is sometimes referred to as Bhillamalacharya, which means the teacher from Bhillamala. He began to study astronomy when he was a young man. At this time, Indian astronomy was quite advanced compared to the work being done in the rest of the world. When he was only 30 years old, he published his most famous book, the Brahmasphutasiddhanta. In this book, he mainly focused on issues related to astronomy. He asserted that the Earth was round and not flat, as many people still believed, and even calculated that the circumference of the Earth was approximately 36,000 km. Today, we know that the Earth's circumference is actually about 40...

The history of the passage of the extraordinarily brilliant and fundamental mathematical discoveries of the ancient Indian mathematician, Brahmagupta (598–665 c.e.) from India to Arabia and then to Europe, through the centuries, has been vividly described. This article endeavors to appreciate Brahmagupta’s position as an original creative mathematician in the perspective of world mathematics. This paper primarily concentrates on the history of the Brahmagupta’s mathematics and his transmission to the Arab countries. The methodology adopted has a composite structure: history and mathematics. We have discussed Brahmagupta’s original contributions, which are contained in two illustrious treatises–the Brahma-sphutasiddh anta and the Khan. d.a-khadyaka–composed in Sanskrit verses. Brahmagupta’s original method of solving an indeterminate quadratic equation in two variables has been presented in some detail. The details of the Indian and Arab scholars and others involved in the intellectual scientific-mathematical transmission of knowledge processes, the roles played by the then rulers of Indian and the Arab countries in this type of transmission operation, the socio-political situations in these countries are presented. It has been concluded that Brahmagupta’s mathematics is now a part of the stat shared heritage of humankind. Keywords • Integral Solution • Arab Country • Creative Mathematician • Lunar Eclipse • World Mathematic These keywords were added by machine and not by t...

Lived 597 – 668 AD Brahmagupta is unique. He is the only scientist we have to thank for discovering the properties of precisely zero… Brahmagupta was an Ancient Indian astronomer and mathematician who lived from 597 AD to 668 AD. He was born in the city of Bhinmal in Northwest India. His father, whose name was Jisnugupta, was an astrologer. Although Brahmagupta thought of himself as an astronomer who did some mathematics, he is now mainly remembered for his contributions to mathematics. Many of his important discoveries were written as poetry rather than as mathematical equations! Nevertheless, truth is truth, regardless of how it may be written. Advertisements Quick Guide to Brahmagupta Brahmagupta: • was the director of the astronomical observatory of Ujjain, the center of Ancient Indian mathematical astronomy. • wrote four books about astronomy and mathematics, the most famous of which is Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta ( Brahma’s Correct System of Astronomy, or The Opening of the Universe.) • said solving mathematical problems was something he did for pleasure. • was the first person in history to define the properties of the number zero. Identifying zero as a number whose properties needed to be defined was vital for the future of mathematics and science. • defined zero as the number you get when you subtract a number from itself. • said that zero divided by any other number is zero. • said dividing zero by zero produces zero. (Although, this seems reasonable, Brahmagupta act...

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