Question

Aryabhatta, the great mathematician and astrologer was related to which place? 
1. Odantpura
2. Patliputra
3. Vaishali
4. Nalanda

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Patliputra

The correct answer is Patliputra.

• Aryabhatta was a famous Indian mathematician and astronomer, born in a place called Taregana, in Bihar.
• Taregana which literally means songs of stars in Bihari is a small place situated nearly 30 km from Patna, which was then known as Kusumpura later Pataliputra, the capital of the Gupta Empire.

• Aryabhata was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.
• His works include the Aryabhaṭiya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-Siddhanta.
• The works of Aryabhata dealt with mainly mathematics and astronomy.
• The mathematical part of the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry.
• It also contains continued fractions, quadratic equations, sums of power series, and a table of sines.
• Aryabhata did solve quadratic and indeterminate equations, and provided an extremely accurate approximation for “pi”.