Biography of aryabhatta indian mathematician bhaskara

Indian mathematician and astronomer ()

For others with the same name, see Bhaskara (disambiguation).

Bhāskara (c.&#;&#;– c.&#;) (commonly called Bhāskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th-century mathematicianBhāskara II) was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer who was the first to write numbers in the Hindu–Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work.^[3] This commentary, Āryabhaṭīyabhāṣya, written in , is among the oldest known prose works in Sanskrit on mathematics and astronomy.

He also wrote two astronomical works in the line of Aryabhata's school: the Mahābhāskarīya ("Great Book of Bhāskara") and the Laghubhāskarīya ("Small Book of Bhāskara").^[3][4]

On 7 June , the Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Bhāskara I satellite, named in honour of the mathematician.^[5]