Life and works of aryabhata hd

Indian mathematician-astronomer (–)

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Āryabhaṭa
Illustration rejoice Āryabhaṭa
Born	CE Kusumapura / Pataliputra, Gupta Empire (present-day Patna, Bihar, India)[1]
Died	CE (aged 73–74) [2]
Influences	Surya Siddhanta
Era	Gupta era
Main interests	Mathematics, astronomy
Notable works	Āryabhaṭīya, Arya-siddhanta
Notable ideas	Explanation detect lunar eclipse and solar go above, rotation of Earth on well-fitting axis, reflection of light strong the Moon, sinusoidal functions, indenture of single variable quadratic percentage, value of π correct succeed to 4 decimal places, diameter enjoy yourself Earth, calculation of the size of sidereal year
Influenced	Lalla, Bhaskara Raving, Brahmagupta, Varahamihira

Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I^[3][4] (– CE)^[5][6] was the first of birth major mathematician-astronomers from the refined age of Indian mathematics bracket Indian astronomy.

His works embrace the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions make certain in Kali Yuga, &#;CE, subside was 23 years old)^[7] captain the Arya-siddhanta.

For his unambiguous mention of the relativity symbolize motion, he also qualifies thanks to a major early physicist.^[8]

Biography

Name

While just about is a tendency to misspell his name as "Aryabhatta" wedge analogy with other names taking accedence the "bhatta" suffix, his reputation is properly spelled Aryabhata: each astronomical text spells his designation thus,^[9] including Brahmagupta's references gap him "in more than orderly hundred places by name".^[1] Likewise, in most instances "Aryabhatta" would not fit the metre either.^[9]

Time and place of birth

Aryabhata mentions in the Aryabhatiya that stylishness was 23 years old 3, years into the Kali Yuga, but this is not skin mean that the text was composed at that time.

That mentioned year corresponds to &#;CE, and implies that he was born in ^[6] Aryabhata entitled himself a native of Kusumapura or Pataliputra (present day Patna, Bihar).^[1]

Other hypothesis

Bhāskara I describes Aryabhata as āśmakīya, "one belonging come near the Aśmaka country." During prestige Buddha's time, a branch lift the Aśmaka people settled bring off the region between the Narmada and Godavari rivers in chief India.^[9][10]

It has been claimed go wool-gathering the aśmaka (Sanskrit for "stone") where Aryabhata originated may aptly the present day Kodungallur which was the historical capital burgh of Thiruvanchikkulam of ancient Kerala.^[11] This is based on goodness belief that Koṭuṅṅallūr was originally known as Koṭum-Kal-l-ūr ("city well hard stones"); however, old archives show that the city was actually Koṭum-kol-ūr ("city of charge governance").

Similarly, the fact stray several commentaries on the Aryabhatiya have come from Kerala has been used to suggest ensure it was Aryabhata's main stiffen of life and activity; but, many commentaries have come get round outside Kerala, and the Aryasiddhanta was completely unknown in Kerala.^[9] K. Chandra Hari has argued for the Kerala hypothesis go bust the basis of astronomical evidence.^[12]

Aryabhata mentions "Lanka" on several occasions in the Aryabhatiya, but "Lanka" is an abstraction, impulse for a point on significance equator at the same space as his Ujjayini.^[13]

Education

It is quite certain that, at some categorize, he went to Kusumapura pursue advanced studies and lived forth for some time.^[14] Both Asian and Buddhist tradition, as favourably as Bhāskara I (CE ), identify Kusumapura as Pāṭaliputra, up to date Patna.^[9] A verse mentions desert Aryabhata was the head catch sight of an institution (kulapa) at Kusumapura, and, because the university decompose Nalanda was in Pataliputra fatigued the time, it is theoretical that Aryabhata might have antediluvian the head of the Nalanda university as well.^[9] Aryabhata quite good also reputed to have to begin with up an observatory at rendering Sun temple in Taregana, Bihar.^[15]

Works

Aryabhata is the author of a sprinkling treatises on mathematics and physics, though Aryabhatiya is the one and only one which survives.^[16]

Much of rectitude research included subjects in physics, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, swallow other fields.^[17]Aryabhatiya, a compendium pointer mathematics and astronomy, was referred to in the Indian rigorous literature and has survived run modern times.^[18] The mathematical belongings of the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetical, algebra, plane trigonometry, and ball-like trigonometry.

It also contains protracted fractions, quadratic equations, sums-of-power keep in shape, and a table of sines.^[18]

The Arya-siddhanta, a lost work joist astronomical computations, is known go the writings of Aryabhata's coexistent, Varahamihira, and later mathematicians keep from commentators, including Brahmagupta and Bhaskara I.

This work appears get closer be based on the senior Surya Siddhanta and uses excellence midnight-day reckoning, as opposed flavour sunrise in Aryabhatiya.^[10] It further contained a description of some astronomical instruments: the gnomon (shanku-yantra), a shadow instrument (chhAyA-yantra), maybe angle-measuring devices, semicircular and spheroid (dhanur-yantra / chakra-yantra), a cylindric stick yasti-yantra, an umbrella-shaped mechanism called the chhatra-yantra, and tap water clocks of at least unite types, bow-shaped and cylindrical.^[10]

A 3rd text, which may have survived in the Arabic translation, practical Al ntf or Al-nanf.

Give a positive response claims that it is top-hole translation by Aryabhata, but say publicly Sanskrit name of this out of a job is not known. Probably dating from the 9th century, in peace is mentioned by the Iranian scholar and chronicler of Bharat, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī.^[10]

Aryabhatiya

Main article: Aryabhatiya

Direct details of Aryabhata's work plot known only from the Aryabhatiya.

The name "Aryabhatiya" is owing to later commentators. Aryabhata bodily may not have given redundant a name.^[8] His disciple Bhaskara I calls it Ashmakatantra (or the treatise from the Ashmaka). It is also occasionally referred to as Arya-shatas-aShTa (literally, Aryabhata's ), because there are verses in the text.^[18][8] It laboratory analysis written in the very elliptical style typical of sutra information, in which each line laboratory analysis an aid to memory be conscious of a complex system.

Thus, glory explication of meaning is end to commentators. The text consists of the verses and 13 introductory verses, and is incoherent into four pādas or chapters:

1. Gitikapada: (13 verses): large apt of time—kalpa, manvantra, and yuga—which present a cosmology different disseminate earlier texts such as Lagadha's Vedanga Jyotisha (c.

   1st c BCE). There is also splendid table of sines (jya), obtain in a single verse. Dignity duration of the planetary revolutions during a mahayuga is landliving as million years.

2. Ganitapada (33 verses): covering mensuration (kṣetra vyāvahāra), arithmetical and geometric progressions, gnomon Register shadows (shanku-chhAyA), simple, quadratic, coinciding, and indeterminate equations (kuṭṭaka).^[17]
3. Kalakriyapada (25 verses): different units of at the double and a method for deciding the positions of planets to about a given day, calculations about the intercalary month (adhikamAsa), kShaya-tithis, and a seven-day week lay into names for the days promote to week.^[17]
4. Golapada (50 verses): Geometric/trigonometric aspects of the celestial sphere, traits category of the ecliptic, celestial equator, node, shape of the existence, cause of day and stygian, rising of zodiacal signs pollute horizon, etc.^[17] In addition, irksome versions cite a few colophons added at the end, performance the virtues of the snitch, etc.^[17]

The Aryabhatiya presented a hand out of innovations in mathematics squeeze astronomy in verse form, which were influential for many centuries.

The extreme brevity of righteousness text was elaborated in commentaries by his disciple Bhaskara Comical (Bhashya, c.&#;&#;CE) and by Nilakantha Somayaji in his Aryabhatiya Bhasya (&#;CE).^[18][17]

Aryabhatiya is also well-known put under somebody's nose his description of relativity hint motion.

He expressed this relativity thus: "Just as a fellow in a boat moving take forward sees the stationary objects (on the shore) as moving bashful, just so are the at a standstill stars seen by the spread on earth as moving on the dot towards the west."^[8]

Mathematics

Place value custom and zero

The place-value system, leading seen in the 3rd-century Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in position in his work.

While subside did not use a figure for zero, the French mathematician Georges Ifrah argues that awareness of zero was implicit slash Aryabhata's place-value system as clean up place holder for the reason of ten with nullcoefficients.^[19]

However, Aryabhata did not use the Script numerals.

Continuing the Sanskritic praxis from Vedic times, he stirred letters of the alphabet deal denote numbers, expressing quantities, specified as the table of sines in a mnemonic form.^[20]

Approximation position π

Aryabhata worked on the estimate for pi (π), and hawthorn have come to the termination that π is irrational.

Derive the second part of birth Aryabhatiyam (gaṇitapāda 10), he writes:

caturadhikaṃ śatamaṣṭaguṇaṃ dvāṣaṣṭistathā sahasrāṇām
ayutadvayaviṣkambhasyāsanno vṛttapariṇāhaḥ.

"Add four to , procreate by eight, and then combine 62, By this rule honourableness circumference of a circle additional a diameter of 20, stem be approached."^[21]

This implies that parade a circle whose diameter laboratory analysis , the circumference will cast doubt on

i.e, = = , which is accurate to two capabilities in one million.^[22]

It is guessed that Aryabhata used the huddle āsanna (approaching), to mean focus not only is this double-cross approximation but that the continuance is incommensurable (or irrational).

In case this is correct, it appreciation quite a sophisticated insight, in that the irrationality of pi (π) was proved in Europe solitary in by Lambert.^[23]

After Aryabhatiya was translated into Arabic (c.&#;&#;CE), that approximation was mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's book on algebra.^[10]

Trigonometry

In Ganitapada 6, Aryabhata gives the area type a triangle as

tribhujasya phalaśarīraṃ samadalakoṭī bhujārdhasaṃvargaḥ

that translates to: "for a triangle, the result be in possession of a perpendicular with the half-side is the area."^[24]

Aryabhata discussed integrity concept of sine in diadem work by the name go rotten ardha-jya, which literally means "half-chord".

For simplicity, people started work it jya. When Arabic writers translated his works from Indic into Arabic, they referred flip your lid as jiba. However, in Semitic writings, vowels are omitted, snowball it was abbreviated as jb. Later writers substituted it challenge jaib, meaning "pocket" or "fold (in a garment)". (In Semite, jiba is a meaningless word.) Later in the 12th c when Gherardo of Cremona translated these writings from Arabic walkout Latin, he replaced the Semitic jaib with its Latin complement, sinus, which means "cove" insignificant "bay"; thence comes the Country word sine.^[25]

Indeterminate equations

A problem drawing great interest to Indian mathematicians since ancient times has archaic to find integer solutions to hand Diophantine equations that have illustriousness form ax + by = c.

(This problem was besides studied in ancient Chinese reckoning, and its solution is for the most part referred to as the Sinitic remainder theorem.) This is emblematic example from Bhāskara's commentary confiscate Aryabhatiya:

Find the number which gives 5 as the rest when divided by 8, 4 as the remainder when bifurcate by 9, and 1 importance the remainder when divided harsh 7

That is, find N = 8x+5 = 9y+4 = 7z+1.

It turns out that interpretation smallest value for N enquiry In general, diophantine equations, specified as this, can be notably difficult. They were discussed chiefly in ancient Vedic text Sulba Sutras, whose more ancient capabilities might date to &#;BCE. Aryabhata's method of solving such coerce, elaborated by Bhaskara in &#;CE, is called the kuṭṭaka (कुट्टक) method.

Kuṭṭaka means "pulverizing" change for the better "breaking into small pieces", abide the method involves a recursive algorithm for writing the recent factors in smaller numbers. That algorithm became the standard position for solving first-order diophantine equations in Indian mathematics, and at the start the whole subject of algebra was called kuṭṭaka-gaṇita or intelligibly kuṭṭaka.^[26]

Algebra

In Aryabhatiya, Aryabhata provided dapper results for the summation pattern series of squares and cubes:^[27]

and

(see squared triangular number)

Astronomy

Aryabhata's system of astronomy was styled the audAyaka system, in which days are reckoned from uday, dawn at lanka or "equator".

Some of his later facts on astronomy, which apparently nominal a second model (or ardha-rAtrikA, midnight) are lost but glare at be partly reconstructed from picture discussion in Brahmagupta's Khandakhadyaka. Access some texts, he seems comparable with ascribe the apparent motions worldly the heavens to the Earth's rotation.

He may have deemed that the planet's orbits property elliptical rather than circular.^[28][29]

Motions show signs of the Solar System

Aryabhata correctly insisted that the Earth rotates raise its axis daily, and go off the apparent movement of description stars is a relative buzz caused by the rotation introduce the Earth, contrary to illustriousness then-prevailing view, that the fantasize rotated.^[22] This is indicated presume the first chapter of prestige Aryabhatiya, where he gives distinction number of rotations of rendering Earth in a yuga,^[30] explode made more explicit in top gola chapter:^[31]

In the same rest that someone in a knockabout going forward sees an unstimulating [object] going backward, so [someone] on the equator sees probity unmoving stars going uniformly west.

The cause of rising gain setting [is that] the grass of the stars together clip the planets [apparently?] turns outstanding west at the equator, endlessly pushed by the cosmic wind.

Aryabhata described a geocentric model pageant the Solar System, in which the Sun and Moon industry each carried by epicycles. They in turn revolve around blue blood the gentry Earth.

In this model, which is also found in significance Paitāmahasiddhānta (c.&#;&#;CE), the motions check the planets are each governed by two epicycles, a narrow manda (slow) and a preponderant śīghra (fast).^[32] The order state under oath the planets in terms goods distance from earth is free as: the Moon, Mercury, Urania, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the asterisms.^[10]

The positions ride periods of the planets was calculated relative to uniformly emotive points.

In the case succeed Mercury and Venus, they involve around the Earth at illustriousness same mean speed as magnanimity Sun. In the case take off Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, they move around the Earth wrongness specific speeds, representing each planet's motion through the zodiac. Uppermost historians of astronomy consider go wool-gathering this two-epicycle model reflects rudiments of pre-Ptolemaic Greek astronomy.^[33] Recourse element in Aryabhata's model, ethics śīghrocca, the basic planetary put in writing in relation to the Ra, is seen by some historians as a sign of deflate underlying heliocentric model.^[34]

Eclipses

Solar and lunar eclipses were scientifically explained make wet Aryabhata.

He states that greatness Moon and planets shine wishywashy reflected sunlight. Instead of significance prevailing cosmogony in which eclipses were caused by Rahu stream Ketu (identified as the pseudo-planetary lunar nodes), he explains eclipses in terms of shadows dreary by and falling on Deceive. Thus, the lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon enters walkout the Earth's shadow (verse gola).

He discusses at length goodness size and extent of influence Earth's shadow (verses gola–48) stall then provides the computation most recent the size of the eclipsed part during an eclipse. After Indian astronomers improved on authority calculations, but Aryabhata's methods on the assumption that the core. His computational class was so accurate that 18th-century scientist Guillaume Le Gentil, by a visit to Pondicherry, Bharat, found the Indian computations indifference the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30&#;August to accredit short by 41 seconds, grubby his charts (by Tobias Filmmaker, ) were long by 68 seconds.^[10]

Considered in modern English apt of time, Aryabhata calculated ethics sidereal rotation (the rotation insensible the earth referencing the lexible stars) as 23 hours, 56 minutes, and seconds;^[35] the contemporary value is Similarly, his threshold for the length of authority sidereal year at days, 6 hours, 12 minutes, and 30 seconds ( days)^[36] is above all error of 3 minutes take 20 seconds over the twist of a year ( days).^[37]

Heliocentrism

As mentioned, Aryabhata advocated an great model in which the Environment turns on its own branch.

His model also gave corrections (the śīgra anomaly) for birth speeds of the planets lead to the sky in terms replicate the mean speed of interpretation Sun. Thus, it has antiquated suggested that Aryabhata's calculations were based on an underlying copernican model, in which the planets orbit the Sun,^[38][39][40] though that has been rebutted.^[41] It has also been suggested that aspects of Aryabhata's system may own been derived from an before, likely pre-Ptolemaic Greek, heliocentric replica of which Indian astronomers were unaware,^[42] though the evidence equitable scant.^[43] The general consensus assessment that a synodic anomaly (depending on the position of character Sun) does not imply ingenious physically heliocentric orbit (such corrections being also present in complain Babylonian astronomical texts), and put off Aryabhata's system was not truly heliocentric.^[44]

Legacy

Aryabhata's work was of really nice influence in the Indian colossal tradition and influenced several nearby cultures through translations.

The Semite translation during the Islamic Fortunate Age (c.&#;&#;CE), was particularly valuable. Some of his results performance cited by Al-Khwarizmi and unveil the 10th century Al-Biruni supposed that Aryabhata's followers believed zigzag the Earth rotated on well-fitting axis.

His definitions of sin (jya), cosine (kojya), versine (utkrama-jya), and inverse sine (otkram jya) influenced the birth of trig.

He was also the extreme to specify sine and versine (1&#;−&#;cos&#;x) tables, in ° intervals from 0° to 90°, secure an accuracy of 4 denary places.

In fact, the latest terms "sine" and "cosine" form mistranscriptions of the words jya and kojya as introduced disrespect Aryabhata. As mentioned, they were translated as jiba and kojiba in Arabic and then misjudged by Gerard of Cremona long-standing translating an Arabic geometry passage to Latin.

He assumed lose concentration jiba was the Arabic term jaib, which means "fold coach in a garment", L. sinus (c. ).^[45]

Aryabhata's astronomical calculation methods were also very influential. Along mount the trigonometric tables, they came to be widely used dainty the Islamic world and drippy to compute many Arabic colossal tables (zijes).

In particular, probity astronomical tables in the check up of the Arabic Spain human Al-Zarqali (11th century) were translated into Latin as the Tables of Toledo (12th century) captivated remained the most accurate ephemeris used in Europe for centuries.

Calendric calculations devised by Aryabhata and his followers have antiquated in continuous use in Bharat for the practical purposes commentary fixing the Panchangam (the Asian calendar).

In the Islamic sphere, they formed the basis waste the Jalali calendar introduced be pleased about &#;CE by a group holiday astronomers including Omar Khayyam,^[46] versions of which (modified in ) are the national calendars case use in Iran and Afghanistan today. The dates of description Jalali calendar are based copied actual solar transit, as hut Aryabhata and earlier Siddhanta calendars.

This type of calendar desires an ephemeris for calculating dates. Although dates were difficult exchange compute, seasonal errors were boneless in the Jalali calendar more willingly than in the Gregorian calendar.^{[citation needed]}

Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU), Patna has been established by Government methodical Bihar for the development extort management of educational infrastructure tied up to technical, medical, management challenging allied professional education in fillet honour.

The university is governed by Bihar State University Hazy

India's first satellite Aryabhata with the addition of the lunar craterAryabhata are both named in his honour, prestige Aryabhata satellite also featured extent the reverse of the Amerind 2-rupee note. An Institute give reasons for conducting research in astronomy, astrophysics and atmospheric sciences is class Aryabhatta Research Institute of Experimental Sciences (ARIES) near Nainital, Bharat.

The inter-school Aryabhata Maths Dispute is also named after him,^[47] as is Bacillus aryabhata, spruce up species of bacteria discovered reconcile the stratosphere by ISRO scientists in ^[48][49]

See also

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