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Bhāskara II

1114 - 1185

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Bhāskara II ([bʰɑːskərə]; c.1114–1185), also known as Bhāskarāchārya (lit. 'Bhāskara the teacher'), was an Indian polymath, mathematician, astronomer and engineer. From verses in his main work, Siddhānta Śiromaṇi, it can be inferred that he was born in 1114 in Vijjadavida (Vijjalavida) and living in the Satpura mountain ranges of Western Ghats, believed to be the town of Patana in Chalisgaon, located in present-day Khandesh region of Maharashtra by scholars. In a temple in Maharashtra, an inscription supposedly created by his grandson Changadeva, lists Bhaskaracharya's ancestral lineage for several generations before him as well as two generations after him. Henry Colebrooke who was the first European to translate (1817) Bhaskaracharya II's mathematical classics refers to the family as Maharashtrian Brahmins residing on the banks of the Godavari. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bhāskara II is the 75th most popular mathematician (down from 63rd in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from India (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Mathematician.

Bhāskara II is most famous for his text, Siddhānta Shiromani. It is a commentary on the Brahma Sutras, one of the most important texts in Vedanta philosophy.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bhāskara II ranks 75 out of 1,004. Before him are Andrey Kolmogorov, Gaspard Monge, Norbert Wiener, Giuseppe Peano, Stanislaw Ulam, and Siméon Denis Poisson. After him are Regiomontanus, János Bolyai, Katherine Johnson, Pappus of Alexandria, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Thābit ibn Qurra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1114, Bhāskara II ranks 1. After him are Otto of Freising, Gerard of Cremona, Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence, Dirk VI, Count of Holland, Rainald of Dassel, and Gertrude of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1185, Bhāskara II ranks 7. Before him are Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Pope Lucius III, Afonso I of Portugal, Chrétien de Troyes, Ibn Tufail, and Andronikos I Komnenos. After him are Agnes of Courtenay, Emperor Antoku, Manuel Komnenos, Andronikos Doukas Angelos, John Kinnamos, and Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhāskara II ranks 68 out of 1,861. Before him are Salman Khan (1965), Iskander Mirza (1899), Ram Narayan (1927), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Aurangzeb (1618), and Ghalib (1797). After him are Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Akbar II (1760), Amartya Sen (1933), Jim Corbett (1875), and Ibrahim Lodi (1450).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Bhāskara II ranks 3. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), and Brahmagupta (598). After him are Augustus De Morgan (1806), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Bhāskara I (600), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jai Singh II (1688), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940).

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