ARYABHATTA

History of
Great Indian
Mathematician

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Aryabhatta was the

first of the major
mathematicianastronomers from the
classical age of Indian
mathematics and
Indian astronomy.

TIME AND PLACE OF BIRTH

Aryabhatta mentions in the Aryabhatiya

that it was composed 3,6oo years into
the Kali Yuga,when he was 23 years
old.This correseponds to 499 CE and
inplies that he was born in
476.Aryabhatta called himself a native
of Kusumapura or Pataliputra (present
day Patna).

EDUCATION
IT is fairly certain that,at some point,he went to
Kusumapua for advanced studies and lived
there for some time .Both Hindu and Buddhist
tradition,as well as Bhaskar 1(CE 629),identify
Kusumapura as Pataliputra, modern Patna.A
verse mentions that Aryabhatta was the head of
an institution (kulapa) at Kusumapura and,
because the university of Nalanda was in
Pataliputra at the time and had and
astronomical observatory.It is speculated that
Aryabhatta might have been the head of the
Nalanda university as well.

Personal Life and Legacy

Aryabhattas work was of great influence in
the Indian astronomical tradition and
influenced several neighbouring cultures
through translations.
Indias first satellite Aryabhatta is named in
his honour.
The Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU)
,Patna,has been established by the
Government of Bihar in his honour for the
development and management of educational
infrastructure related to technical and
professional education.

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INVENTOR OF ZERO

PLACE VALUE SYSTEM AND

ZERO
The place value system, first seen in the third
century Bakhshali Manuscript,was clearly in
place in his work.
While he did not use a symbol for zero,the
French
Mathematician Georges Ifrah argues that
knowledge of zero was implicit in
Aryabhattas place value system
as a place holder for the powers of ten with
null coefficients.
However,Aryabhatta did not use the Brahmi
numerals.Continuing the Sanskritic tradition

APPROXIMATION OF
Aryabhatta worked on the approximation for
pi () ,and may also have come to the
conclusion that is irrational.
Rule: Add 4 to 100,multiply by 8,add
62,000.The result is approximately the
circumference of a circle of diameter twenty
thousand.By this rule the relation of the
circumfeence to the diameter is given.
This gives =62832/20000=3.1416.Which is
an accurate value of .

ALGEBRA

Aryabhatta gave a
table of sines for
calculating the
approximate values
at intervals of
90/24=3 45.This
was done using the
formula for
sin(n+1)x-sin nx in
terms of sin nx and
sin(n-1)x.

CONCLUSION

Aryabhatta was an accaimed

mathematician-astronomer.He was born in
476AD in Kusumapura(present day Patna) in
Bihar and died in 550AD.His contributions
to mathematics,science and astronomy is
immense.He was aware of the concept of
zero and was the first to calculate the value
of pi accurately to the fourth decimal
point.He devised the formula for calculating
areas of triangles and circles.