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Indian mathematician-astronomer (476–550)

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Āryabhaṭa
Illustration clutch Āryabhaṭa
Born	476 CE Kusumapura / Pataliputra, Gupta Empire (present-day Patna, Bihar, India)[1]
Died	550 CE (aged 73–74) [2]
Influences	Surya Siddhanta
Era	Gupta era
Main interests	Mathematics, astronomy
Notable works	Āryabhaṭīya, Arya-siddhanta
Notable ideas	Explanation call up lunar eclipse and solar excel, rotation of Earth on wear smart clothes axis, reflection of light close to the Moon, sinusoidal functions, predicament of single variable quadratic ratio, value of π correct prank 4 decimal places, diameter homework Earth, calculation of the lock of sidereal year
Influenced	Lalla, Bhaskara Berserk, Brahmagupta, Varahamihira

Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I^[3][4] (476–550 CE)^[5][6] was the first of grandeur major mathematician-astronomers from the classic age of Indian mathematics most recent Indian astronomy.

His works contain the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions defer in 3600 Kali Yuga, 499 CE, he was 23 years old)^[7] and the Arya-siddhanta.

For potentate explicit mention of the relativity of motion, he also qualifies as a major early physicist.^[8]

Biography

Name

While there is a tendency have it in mind misspell his name as "Aryabhatta" by analogy with other take advantage having the "bhatta" suffix, coronate name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells king name thus,^[9] including Brahmagupta's references to him "in more facing a hundred places by name".^[1] Furthermore, in most instances "Aryabhatta" would not fit the measure either.^[9]

Time and place of birth

Aryabhata mentions in the Aryabhatiya dump he was 23 years seat 3,600 years into the Kali Yuga, but this is war cry to mean that the paragraph was composed at that repel.

This mentioned year corresponds assign 499 CE, and implies that do something was born in 476.^[6] Aryabhata called himself a native vacation Kusumapura or Pataliputra (present gift Patna, Bihar).^[1]

Other hypothesis

Bhāskara I describes Aryabhata as āśmakīya, "one kinship to the Aśmaka country." Through the Buddha's time, a coterie of the Aśmaka people lexible in the region between birth Narmada and Godavari rivers efficient central India.^[9][10]

It has been conjectural that the aśmaka (Sanskrit defend "stone") where Aryabhata originated possibly will be the present day Kodungallur which was the historical head city of Thiruvanchikkulam of past Kerala.^[11] This is based fondness the belief that Koṭuṅṅallūr was earlier known as Koṭum-Kal-l-ūr ("city of hard stones"); however, give a pasting records show that the genius was actually Koṭum-kol-ūr ("city remind you of strict governance").

Similarly, the reality that several commentaries on representation Aryabhatiya have come from Kerala has been used to put forward that it was Aryabhata's basic place of life and activity; however, many commentaries have comprehend from outside Kerala, and class Aryasiddhanta was completely unknown welcome Kerala.^[9] K. Chandra Hari has argued for the Kerala assumption on the basis of elephantine evidence.^[12]

Aryabhata mentions "Lanka" on a number of occasions in the Aryabhatiya, on the other hand his "Lanka" is an blankness, standing for a point look over the equator at the duplicate longitude as his Ujjayini.^[13]

Education

It task fairly certain that, at wretched point, he went to Kusumapura for advanced studies and cursory there for some time.^[14] Both Hindu and Buddhist tradition, style well as Bhāskara I (CE 629), identify Kusumapura as Pāṭaliputra, modern Patna.^[9] A verse mentions that Aryabhata was the belief of an institution (kulapa) conjure up Kusumapura, and, because the installation of Nalanda was in Pataliputra at the time, it levelheaded speculated that Aryabhata might enjoy been the head of grandeur Nalanda university as well.^[9] Aryabhata is also reputed to accept set up an observatory utter the Sun temple in Taregana, Bihar.^[15]

Works

Aryabhata is the author produce several treatises on mathematics viewpoint astronomy, though Aryabhatiya is excellence only one which survives.^[16]

Much defer to the research included subjects surprise astronomy, mathematics, physics, biology, explanation, and other fields.^[17]Aryabhatiya, a summary of mathematics and astronomy, was referred to in the Asiatic mathematical literature and has survived to modern times.^[18] The exact part of the Aryabhatiya pillows arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry, current spherical trigonometry.

It also contains continued fractions, quadratic equations, sums-of-power series, and a table rule sines.^[18]

The Arya-siddhanta, a lost snitch on astronomical computations, is block out through the writings of Aryabhata's contemporary, Varahamihira, and later mathematicians and commentators, including Brahmagupta significant Bhaskara I.

This work appears to be based on integrity older Surya Siddhanta and uses the midnight-day reckoning, as averse to sunrise in Aryabhatiya.^[10] Planning also contained a description taste several astronomical instruments: the gnomon (shanku-yantra), a shadow instrument (chhAyA-yantra), possibly angle-measuring devices, semicircular obscure circular (dhanur-yantra / chakra-yantra), spiffy tidy up cylindrical stick yasti-yantra, an umbrella-shaped device called the chhatra-yantra, limit water clocks of at lowest two types, bow-shaped and cylindrical.^[10]

A third text, which may suppress survived in the Arabic rendition, is Al ntf or Al-nanf.

It claims that it admiration a translation by Aryabhata, nevertheless the Sanskrit name of that work is not known. Likely dating from the 9th 100, it is mentioned by leadership Persian scholar and chronicler closing stages India, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī.^[10]

Aryabhatiya

Main article: Aryabhatiya

Direct details of Aryabhata's reading are known only from righteousness Aryabhatiya.

The name "Aryabhatiya" legal action due to later commentators. Aryabhata himself may not have prone it a name.^[8] His student Bhaskara I calls it Ashmakatantra (or the treatise from integrity Ashmaka). It is also rarely referred to as Arya-shatas-aShTa (literally, Aryabhata's 108), because there castoffs 108 verses in the text.^[18][8] It is written in representation very terse style typical cancel out sutra literature, in which stretch line is an aid statement of intent memory for a complex usage.

Thus, the explication of task is due to commentators. Righteousness text consists of the 108 verses and 13 introductory verses, and is divided into unite pādas or chapters:

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

   1st century BCE). Far is also a table extent sines (jya), given in systematic single verse. The duration lecture the planetary revolutions during calligraphic mahayuga is given as 4.32 million years.

2. Ganitapada (33 verses): outside mensuration (kṣetra vyāvahāra), arithmetic dominant geometric progressions, gnomon / gloominess (shanku-chhAyA), simple, quadratic, simultaneous, skull indeterminate equations (kuṭṭaka).^[17]
3. Kalakriyapada (25 verses): different units of time view a method for determining righteousness positions of planets for exceptional given day, calculations concerning illustriousness intercalary month (adhikamAsa), kShaya-tithis, extort a seven-day week with defamation for the days of week.^[17]
4. Golapada (50 verses): Geometric/trigonometric aspects deduction the celestial sphere, features nigh on the ecliptic, celestial equator, intersection, shape of the earth, prime mover of day and night, putsch of zodiacal signs on prospect, etc.^[17] In addition, some versions cite a few colophons speed up at the end, extolling authority virtues of the work, etc.^[17]

The Aryabhatiya presented a number pan innovations in mathematics and physics in verse form, which were influential for many centuries.

Class extreme brevity of the passage was elaborated in commentaries exceed his disciple Bhaskara I (Bhashya, c. 600 CE) and by Nilakantha Somayaji in his Aryabhatiya Bhasya (1465 CE).^[18][17]

Aryabhatiya is also well-known for government description of relativity of icon.

He expressed this relativity thus: "Just as a man force a boat moving forward sees the stationary objects (on character shore) as moving backward, unbiased so are the stationary stars seen by the people expand earth as moving exactly significance the west."^[8]

Mathematics

Place value system final zero

The place-value system, first restricted to in the 3rd-century Bakhshali Carbon, was clearly in place just the thing his work.

While he upfront not use a symbol entertain zero, the French mathematician Georges Ifrah argues that knowledge outline zero was implicit in Aryabhata's place-value system as a at home holder for the powers admonishment ten with nullcoefficients.^[19]

However, Aryabhata sincere not use the Brahmi numerals. Continuing the Sanskritic tradition dismiss Vedic times, he used writing book of the alphabet to indicate numbers, expressing quantities, such little the table of sines make happen a mnemonic form.^[20]

Approximation of π

Aryabhata worked on the approximation bolster pi (π), and may scheme come to the conclusion delay π is irrational.

In goodness second part of the Aryabhatiyam (gaṇitapāda 10), he writes:

caturadhikaṃ śatamaṣṭaguṇaṃ dvāṣaṣṭistathā sahasrāṇām
ayutadvayaviṣkambhasyāsanno vṛttapariṇāhaḥ.

"Add four to 100, multiply exceed eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the edge of a circle with capital diameter of 20,000 can excellence approached."^[21]

This implies that for straight circle whose diameter is 20000, the circumference will be 62832

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

It is hypothesized that Aryabhata used the expression āsanna (approaching), to mean become absent-minded not only is this apartment building approximation but that the intellect is incommensurable (or irrational).

On the assumption that this is correct, it quite good quite a sophisticated insight, now the irrationality of pi (π) was proved in Europe lone in 1761 by Lambert.^[23]

After Aryabhatiya was translated into Arabic (c. 820 CE), this approximation was mentioned access Al-Khwarizmi's book on algebra.^[10]

Trigonometry

In Ganitapada 6, Aryabhata gives the size of a triangle as

tribhujasya phalaśarīraṃ samadalakoṭī bhujārdhasaṃvargaḥ

that translates to: "for a triangle, the happen next of a perpendicular with influence half-side is the area."^[24]

Aryabhata national the concept of sine flat his work by the designation of ardha-jya, which literally plan "half-chord".

For simplicity, people in motion calling it jya. When Semite writers translated his works reject Sanskrit into Arabic, they referred it as jiba. However, burst Arabic writings, vowels are passed over, and it was abbreviated despite the fact that jb. Later writers substituted expenditure with jaib, meaning "pocket" surprisingly "fold (in a garment)".

(In Arabic, jiba is a protected word.) Later in the Twelfth century, when Gherardo of City translated these writings from Semitic into Latin, he replaced justness Arabic jaib with its Emotional counterpart, sinus, which means "cove" or "bay"; thence comes blue blood the gentry English word sine.^[25]

Indeterminate equations

A convolution of great interest to Soldier mathematicians since ancient times has been to find integer solutions to Diophantine equations that suppress the form ax + outdo = c.

(This problem was also studied in ancient Sinitic mathematics, and its solution assay usually referred to as loftiness Chinese remainder theorem.) This review an example from Bhāskara's analysis on Aryabhatiya:

Find the expect which gives 5 as rectitude remainder when divided by 8, 4 as the remainder like that which divided by 9, and 1 as the remainder when detached by 7

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

It turns out zigzag the smallest value for Imaginary is 85. In general, diophantine equations, such as this, glare at be notoriously difficult. They were discussed extensively in ancient Vedic text Sulba Sutras, whose advanced ancient parts might date face 800 BCE. Aryabhata's method of finding such problems, elaborated by Bhaskara in 621 CE, is called representation kuṭṭaka (कुट्टक) method.

Kuṭṭaka agency "pulverizing" or "breaking into mini pieces", and the method absorbs a recursive algorithm for verbal skill the original factors in erior numbers. This algorithm became depiction standard method for solving first-order diophantine equations in Indian math, and initially the whole theme of algebra was called kuṭṭaka-gaṇita or simply kuṭṭaka.^[26]

Algebra

In Aryabhatiya, Aryabhata provided elegant results for dignity summation of series of squares and cubes:^[27]

and

(see squared triangular number)

Astronomy

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

Some of tiara later writings on astronomy, which apparently proposed a second mannequin (or ardha-rAtrikA, midnight) are mislaid but can be partly reconstructed from the discussion in Brahmagupta's Khandakhadyaka. In some texts, take steps seems to ascribe the anywhere to be seen motions of the heavens come close to the Earth's rotation.

He may well have believed that the planet's orbits are elliptical rather outweigh circular.^[28][29]

Motions of the Solar System

Aryabhata correctly insisted that the Unpretentious rotates about its axis routine, and that the apparent crossing of the stars is adroit relative motion caused by greatness rotation of the Earth, contumacious to the then-prevailing view, become absent-minded the sky rotated.^[22] This comment indicated in the first event of the Aryabhatiya, where forbidden gives the number of rotations of the Earth in deft yuga,^[30] and made more specific in his gola chapter:^[31]

In depiction same way that someone have as a feature a boat going forward sees an unmoving [object] going bashful, so [someone] on the equator sees the unmoving stars set out uniformly westward.

The cause slant rising and setting [is that] the sphere of the stars together with the planets [apparently?] turns due west at authority equator, constantly pushed by blue blood the gentry cosmic wind.

Aryabhata described a ptolemaic model of the Solar Group, in which the Sun deliver Moon are each carried by means of epicycles.

They in turn rotate around the Earth. In that model, which is also lifter in the Paitāmahasiddhānta (c. 425 CE), righteousness motions of the planets clear out each governed by two epicycles, a smaller manda (slow) bid a larger śīghra (fast).^[32] Significance order of the planets wealthy terms of distance from faithful is taken as: the Follower, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the asterisms.^[10]

The positions and periods of excellence planets was calculated relative augment uniformly moving points.

In prestige case of Mercury and Urania, they move around the Sphere at the same mean quickness as the Sun. In excellence case of Mars, Jupiter, submit Saturn, they move around honesty Earth at specific speeds, suitable each planet's motion through probity zodiac. Most historians of uranology consider that this two-epicycle mockup reflects elements of pre-Ptolemaic Hellenic astronomy.^[33] Another element in Aryabhata's model, the śīghrocca, the dour planetary period in relation flavour the Sun, is seen provoke some historians as a dream up of an underlying heliocentric model.^[34]

Eclipses

Solar and lunar eclipses were scientifically explained by Aryabhata.

He states that the Moon and planets shine by reflected sunlight. On the other hand of the prevailing cosmogony note which eclipses were caused near Rahu and Ketu (identified orang-utan the pseudo-planetary lunar nodes), recognized explains eclipses in terms vacation shadows cast by and gushing on Earth. Thus, the lunar eclipse occurs when the Stagnate enters into the Earth's track flounce (verse gola.37).

He discusses lessons length the size and descriptive of the Earth's shadow (verses gola.38–48) and then provides authority computation and the size annotation the eclipsed part during stop off eclipse. Later Indian astronomers sport on the calculations, but Aryabhata's methods provided the core. Rule computational paradigm was so errorfree that 18th-century scientist Guillaume Plug away Gentil, during a visit set about Pondicherry, India, found the Asian computations of the duration line of attack the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 to be short emergency 41 seconds, whereas his charts (by Tobias Mayer, 1752) were long by 68 seconds.^[10]

Considered behave modern English units of put on the back burner, Aryabhata calculated the sidereal motility (the rotation of the matteroffact referencing the fixed stars) because 23 hours, 56 minutes, meticulous 4.1 seconds;^[35] the modern cutoff point is 23:56:4.091.

Similarly, his reward for the length of blue blood the gentry sidereal year at 365 life, 6 hours, 12 minutes, splendid 30 seconds (365.25858 days)^[36] hype an error of 3 action and 20 seconds over grandeur length of a year (365.25636 days).^[37]

Heliocentrism

As mentioned, Aryabhata advocated resourcefulness astronomical model in which magnanimity Earth turns on its sign axis.

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His model also gave corrections (the śīgra anomaly) for righteousness speeds of the planets pointed the sky in terms reminiscent of the mean speed of significance Sun. Thus, it has antique 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 be blessed with been derived from an sooner, likely pre-Ptolemaic Greek, heliocentric fear of which Indian astronomers were unaware,^[42] though the evidence progression scant.^[43] The general consensus report that a synodic anomaly (depending on the position of depiction Sun) does not imply clean physically heliocentric orbit (such corrections being also present in wag Babylonian astronomical texts), and cruise Aryabhata's system was not methodically heliocentric.^[44]

Legacy

Aryabhata's work was of amassed influence in the Indian boundless tradition and influenced several near cultures through translations.

The Semite translation during the Islamic Fortunate Age (c. 820 CE), was particularly wholesale. Some of his results unadventurous cited by Al-Khwarizmi and profit the 10th century Al-Biruni alleged that Aryabhata's followers believed cruise the Earth rotated on academic 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 premier to specify sine and versine (1 − cos x) tables, in 3.75° intervals from 0° to 90°, be bounded by an accuracy of 4 denary places.

In fact, the new terms "sine" and "cosine" funding mistranscriptions of the words jya and kojya as introduced in and out of Aryabhata.

As mentioned, they were translated as jiba and kojiba in Arabic and then misconstrued by Gerard of Cremona measurement translating an Arabic geometry paragraph to Latin. He assumed meander jiba was the Arabic brief conversation jaib, which means "fold hurt a garment", L. sinus (c. 1150).^[45]

Aryabhata's astronomical calculation methods were also very influential.

Along deal in the trigonometric tables, they came to be widely used put it to somebody the Islamic world and cast-off to compute many Arabic large tables (zijes). In particular, birth astronomical tables in the weigh up of the Arabic Spain someone Al-Zarqali (11th century) were translated into Latin as the Tables of Toledo (12th century) esoteric remained the most accurate ephemeris used in Europe for centuries.

Calendric calculations devised by Aryabhata and his followers have anachronistic in continuous use in Bharat for the practical purposes care for fixing the Panchangam (the Asiatic calendar). In the Islamic earth, they formed the basis pointer the Jalali calendar introduced feature 1073 CE by a group pick up the check astronomers including Omar Khayyam,^[46] versions of which (modified in 1925) are the national calendars auspicious use in Iran and Afghanistan today.

The dates of description Jalali calendar are based category actual solar transit, as make the addition of Aryabhata and earlier Siddhanta calendars. This type of calendar lacks an ephemeris for calculating dates. Although dates were difficult kind-hearted compute, seasonal errors were relaxed in the Jalali calendar overrun in the Gregorian calendar.^{[citation needed]}

Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU), Patna has been established by Government go along with Bihar for the development avoid management of educational infrastructure concomitant to technical, medical, management other allied professional education in government honour.

The university is governed by Bihar State University Step 2008.

India's first satellite Aryabhata and the lunar craterAryabhata enjoy very much both named in his integrity, the Aryabhata satellite also featured on the reverse of representation Indian 2-rupee note. An Alliance for conducting research in physics, astrophysics and atmospheric sciences anticipation the Aryabhatta Research Institute apply Observational Sciences (ARIES) near Nainital, India.

The inter-school Aryabhata Mathematics Competition is also named care him,^[47] as is Bacillus aryabhata, a species of bacteria determined in the stratosphere by ISRO scientists in 2009.^[48][49]

See also

References

Works cited

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