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Aryabhata

Type Figure Region India Time 476–550 Also known as Aryabhata、Aryabhata I、Āryabhaṭa

Aryabhata was a 5th–6th century Indian mathematician and astronomer, born near Pataliputra in 476 CE.…

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  1. 476–499Pataliputra (Kushinagar) · BiharAryabhata completed his early mathematical and astronomical training in the Pataliputra region and composed the Aryabhatiya at about the age of 23, systematically setting out arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, and theories of celestial motion.
  2. c. 499–550ancient India · IndiaAryabhata proposed a calendar system with an epoch starting 3600 years earlier, calculated π≈3.1416, gave a table of sine differences, and argued for the Earth's rotation; his results were transmitted and developed by later Indian and Arab scholars.

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