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Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I [3] [4] (476–550 CE) [5] [6] was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions that in 3600 Kali Yuga , 499 CE, he was 23 years old) [ 7 ] and the Arya- siddhanta .
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Aryabhata was India's first satellite, [2] named after the astronomer. [3] It was launched on 19 April 1975 [ 2 ] from Kapustin Yar , a Soviet rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast using a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle.
Aryabhata II also deduced a method to calculate the cube root of a number, but his method was already given by Aryabhata I, many years earlier. Indian mathematicians were very keen to give the correct sine tables since they played a vital role to calculate the planetary positions as accurately as possible.
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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 the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's ...
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However, one of India's earliest superheroes is Batul the Great, was created during the 1960s by Narayan Debnath., [2] whose early comic strip Handa Bhonda, inspired by Laurel and Hardy, had been launched in the magazine Shuktara in 1962. [7] In the 1980s, at least 5.5 million copies of comics such as Heroes of Faith series were sold in India. [3]