Sentence examples for hindu mathematician from inspiring English sources
701 - 750 India Shridhara, (flourished c. 750, India), highly esteemed Hindu mathematician who wrote several treatises on the two major fields of Indian mathematics, pati-ganita ("mathematics of procedures," or algorithms) and bija-ganita ("mathematics of seeds," or equations).
By far the most interesting and radical element of School in a Box is how it attempts to promote Vedic mathematics, a system that Bharati Krsna Tirthaji Maharaja, a Hindu mathematician and scholar of the last century, claimed to have rediscovered in the Vedas, or Hindu sacred literature.
Named in honour of the 3rd-century Greek mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria, these equations were first systematically solved by Hindu mathematicians beginning with Aryabhata (c. 476 550).
He extended Aryabhata's list (c. 499) of names of the first 10 decimal places to 18 places; the new list was inherited by most Hindu mathematicians after him.
Suri, who is also a mathematician, grew up in Mumbai, and draws on Hindu mythology in his multi-layered novels.
The name derives from the Latin translation, Algoritmi de numero Indorum, of the 9th-century Muslim mathematician al-Khwarizmi's arithmetic treatise "Al-Khwarizmi Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning".
The 17th century mathematician Kamalakara, was a forward-looking astronomer-mathematician who studied Hindu, Greek and Arabic astronomy.
These numbers were first noted by the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano ("Fibonacci") in his Liber abaci (1202; "Book of the Abacus"), which also popularized Hindu-Arabic numerals and the decimal number system in Europe.
When Leonardo's Liber abaci first appeared, Hindu-Arabic numerals were known to only a few European intellectuals through translations of the writings of the 9th-century Arab mathematician al-Khwārizmī.
