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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. [10] Bhāskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century.
Bhaskara-I and -II were two satellites built by the Indian Space Research Organisation that formed India's first low-Earth orbit Earth observation satellite. They collected data on oceanography and hydrology. The satellites are named after the ancient Indian mathematicians Bhāskara I and Bhāskara II. [1]
Līlāvatī is a treatise by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, [1] alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya. [2] A problem from the Lilavati by Bhaskaracharya. Written in the 12th century.
Siddhānta Śiromaṇi (Sanskrit: सिद्धान्त शिरोमणि for "Crown of treatises") [1] is the major treatise of Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. [2] He wrote the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi in 1150 when he was 36 years old. The work is composed in Sanskrit Language in 1450 verses. [3]
The name Bride's Chair is also used to refer to a certain diagram attributed to the twelfth century Indian mathematician Bhaskara II (c. 1114–1185) who used it as an illustration for the proof of the Pythagorean theorem. [7] The description of this diagram appears in verse 129 of Bijaganita of Bhaskara II. [8]
Bhaskaracharya or Bhaskara II was a 12th century Indian Mathematician. He was also a renowned astronomer of that time. He lived in the a Aashram in Patnadevi. He is said to have written his famous magnum opus, Siddhanta Shiromani in Patnadevi.
It was during this time that he pursued mathematics and traditional astronomy, and started matching predictions made by ancient Indian mathematician-astronomers such as Aryabhatta - 1(476 CE), Varahamihira (503 CE), Brahmagupta (598 CE) and Bhaskara – II (1114 CE) and others, with real observations of celestial objects in the night sky ...
Bhaskara II wrote Karana-kutuhala (literally, "Calculation of Astronomical Wonders") in 1183 CE. [1] Alternative titles for Karana-kutuhala include Karaṇakutūhalam, Khetakarma, Graha-gama-kutuhala, Brahma-tulya, and Vidagdha-buddhi-vallabha. [2] As the name suggests, the book is a karana text, that is, a concise exposition of astronomy.