Aryabhata

"The Aryabhatiya consists of four sections:1.Dasagitika ; 2.Ganitapada ; 3.Kala-kriyapada 25 verses on time-reckoning), and 4. Golapada"

"The second reason adduced, viz., that Aryabhata should have hailed from Kerala is fragile. Besides the Aryabhatan system being prevalent in this land,-“all” commentaries on Aryabhaflya have been produc…"

"With Kala-kriya he turned to astronomy — in particular, treating planetary motion along the ecliptic. The topics include definitions of various units of time, eccentric and epicyclic models of planeta…"

"The Hindus were not so successful in geometry. In the measurement and construction of altars the priests formulated the Pythagorean theorem several hundred years before the birth of Christ. Aryabhata,…"

"He gave more elegant rules for the sum of the squares and cubes of an initial segment of the positive integers. The sixth part of the product of three quantities consisting of the number of terms, the…"

"His value of π is a very close approximation to the modern value and the most accurate among those of the ancients. There are reasons to believe that he devised a particular method for finding this va…"

"His fame rests mainly on his Aryabhatiya, but from the writings of Varahamihira , Bhaskara I, and Brahmagupta it is clear that earlier he composed the Aryabhata Siddhantha is not extant. It is also ca…"

"He is the master who, after reaching the furthest shores and plumbing the inmost depths of the sea of ultimate knowledge of mathematics, kinematics and spherics, handed over the three sciences to the …"