Aryabhatta achievements wikipedia

View three larger pictures. Biography Aryabhata is also known as Aryabhata I to distinguish him from the later mathematician of the same name who lived about years later. Al-Biruni has not helped in understanding Aryabhata's life, for he seemed to believe that there were two different mathematicians called Aryabhata living at the same time.

He therefore created a confusion of two different Aryabhatas which was not clarified until when B Datta showed that al-Biruni 's two Aryabhatas were one and the same person. We have given Kusumapura, thought to be close to Pataliputra which was refounded as Patna in Bihar in , as the place of Aryabhata's birth but this is far from certain, as is even the location of Kusumapura itself.

As Parameswaran writes in [ 26 ] Some conjecture that he was born in south India, perhaps Kerala, Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh, while others conjecture that he was born in the north-east of India, perhaps in Bengal.

Contribution of aryabhatta in mathematics

In [ 8 ] it is claimed that Aryabhata was born in the Asmaka region of the Vakataka dynasty in South India although the author accepted that he lived most of his life in Kusumapura in the Gupta empire of the north. However, giving Asmaka as Aryabhata's birthplace rests on a comment made by Nilakantha Somayaji in the late 15 th century.

We should note that Kusumapura became one of the two major mathematical centres of India, the other being Ujjain. Both are in the north but Kusumapura assuming it to be close to Pataliputra is on the Ganges and is the more northerly. Pataliputra, being the capital of the Gupta empire at the time of Aryabhata, was the centre of a communications network which allowed learning from other parts of the world to reach it easily, and also allowed the mathematical and astronomical advances made by Aryabhata and his school to reach across India and also eventually into the Islamic world.