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Bhaskara ii (1114 – 1185), also known as Bhaskara II and Bhaskara Achārya ("Bhaskara the teacher"), was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. The ii has been appended to his name to distinguish him from the 7th-century astronomer Bhaskara i.
Bhāskara II (born 1114, Biddur, India—died c. 1185, probably Ujjain) was the leading mathematician of the 12th century, who wrote the first work with full and systematic use of the decimal number system.
Born in a Hindu Deshastha Brahmin family of scholars, mathematicians and astronomers, Bhaskara II was the leader of a cosmic observatory at Ujjain, the main mathematical centre of ancient India. Bhāskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century.
Jun 13, 2024 · Bhaskara II, also known as Bhaskara or as Bhaskaracharya, was a 12th century Indian mathematician. He was also a renowned astronomer who accurately defined many astronomical quantities, including the length of the sidereal year.
Sep 28, 2020 · Bhāskara i (c. 600 – c. 680) was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer. He is referred to as Bhaskara i in order to differentiate from the 12th-century mathematician Bhaskara. Bhaskara-i is considered to be one of the three pearls of Indian Astronomy and Mathematics along with Brahmagupta and Madhava Samgramagrama. Who is Bhāskara i?
Labeled as one the “greatest mathematicians of medieval India”, the 12 th-Century mathematician Bhaskara II wrote many books containing mathematical and astronomical feats which would not be discovered elsewhere for another 500 years.
Bhaskara II or Bhaskaracharya was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who extended Brahmagupta's work on number systems.
Bhāskara (c. 600 – c. 680) (commonly called Bhāskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th-century mathematician Bhāskara 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 ...
Bhaskara I (flourished c. 629, possibly Valabhi, near modern Bhavnagar, Saurashtra, India) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician who helped to disseminate the mathematical work of Aryabhata (born 476).
BHASKARA is considered the most important mathematician of the Indian Middle Ages. He is usually referred to as BHASKARA II – to distinguish him from a 7 th century mathematician and astronomer of the same name. Subsequent mathematicians speak of him reverently as BHASKARACHARYA, which means "BHASKARA the teacher" or "BHASKARA the scholar".
