Aryabhata was born in around 476 CE. He was born in India during the Kali Kusumpura Yuga (the age of the demon). This age was known as the age of demon because it had constant eclipses, which people believed to be created by a demon. Most of Aryabhata’s childhood and life events are a mystery. Hardly any records are left about his life. During this era, many didn’t write, but rather used symbols that represented words. Aryabhata, for instance, used his knuckles as a calendar. January would start
The Islamic Empire grew to be very large during the seventh century, amassing significant portions of Europe and Asia. With the growth of the Empire came the transmission of Arabic scientific knowledge, particularly knowledge concerning astronomy. This essay will explore the ways in which the Arab astronomers made important contributions to astronomy, and thus, how they influenced astronomy and cosmology in general. The influence of Arabic astronomy began with the translation of Hellenic texts into
area of a parabolic segment, as an example of summation of an infinite series. He also used the Method of Exhaustion, invented by Antiphon, to approximate the area of a circle, as an example of early integration. Realizing Indian mathematicians, Aryabhata e... ... middle of paper ... ...ocity. On the other hand, Leibniz had taken a geometrical approach, basing his discoveries on the work of previous thinkers like Fermat and Pascal. Though Newton had been the first to derive calculus as a mathematical
The Gupta Empire The Gupta Empire was the most advanced empire to this date because of the . In my personal opinion The Gupta Empire opened doors for many other civilizations to grow stronger and become successful. For the Empire’s meaningful artwork, strong architecture, great inventions, respect for religion, jobs, and a well put together military we can assume this Empire held great meaning. To further our understanding of the Gupta Empire time period, we have to look more in depth into the
with the most complete survivor being the Surya Siddhanta. These texts first defined the sine as the modern relationship between half an angle and half a chord. They also defined cosine, versine, and inverse sine. An Indian mathematician name Aryabhata (476 – 550 AD) later expanded on the developments of the Siddhantas in an influential and important work called the Aryabhatia. The Siddhantas and Aryabhatia contain the earliest surviving table of sine and versine values, in 3.75 degree intervals
foremost logical minds of this age. He is the inventor of abstract mathematics, and the founder of the “Pythagoras Theorem”. This theorem is still used today, in modern geometric equations The Hindu / Arabian Period (500A.D. – 1199A.D.), gave us Aryabhata the Elder and Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi. Al-Khowarizmi wrote a very important Egyptian book titled “Al-jabr” His book helped to advance the study of algebra, and is re... ... middle of paper ... ... salary for a government mathematician
Topic: Compare and contrast the contributions in science and math of ancient Greece, India, and China. Whose discoveries had more influence on us today? Ancient Greece, China, and India all had major contributions in the fields of science and math. All three of those ancient civilizations made such great contributions that they are still used today by many people. We use these contributions in school, work, and in our general every day lives. Although we don’t use the exact inventions that
Literacy in India: Topic Proposal and Annotated Bibliography Ammarnnath NVG North Carolina State University “India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.” ― Shashi Tharoor The Republic of India is a large South Asian country rich in ethnic diversity, with over one billion people speaking