Aryabhatta : The great scientist and mathematician.
Aryabhatta, the great scientist and mathematician from India was born in a small place in Bihar known as Aryabhatta during the Gupta dynasty. He was one of the greatest minds of the millennium who discovered the basics of mathematics that children are taught today in every school around the world. Aryabhatta was the one who worked out the entire value of Pi and this value is used in various inventions and discoveries by scientists around the world.
Being a devout Hindu, Aryabhatta used many cultures and idiosyncrasies in the Hindu scriptures to discover various theories in mathematics one of which was the calculation of the volume of a sphere and the calculation of the area of a triangle. It is said that he came up with the formula of area of triangle and volume of Sphere through the “home”, a type of Hindu ritual, only that is performed in Hindu culture. Although there is no substantial proof to back this theory, the fact can’t be denied that Aryabhatta was a staunch devotee of Hindu culture and many of his inventions were influenced from the scriptures of Bhagavad Gita.
Aryabhatta is popularly known for inventing the number zero. He also invented the number system as we know today. Aryabhatta is not just a mathematician but a physicist and an astronomer too. Aryabhatta was good with words and had written tree astronomical books but only one of the books known as Aryabhata is known to man today.
He was the first person to establish that Earth and other planets in the solar system have its own axis and they rotate around its axis and revolve around the sun on its own axis. It is said that many of his theories, inventions and discoveries were ridiculed by the people then and were not accepted wholeheartedly in the scientific community back in the time but most of his inventions today are celebrated and his theories have given birth to many more inventions that have made the life simpler on earth.
Add 4 to 100, multiply by 8 and add to 62000. This is the circumference of a circle whose diameter is 20000. This was one of the most popular riddles stated by Aryabhatta that changed the way mathematics, physics and astronomy are studied around the world.
The life of aryabhatta has to be taught to children all around the world because his life is filled with stories of inspirations and struggles. Having been born into a humble family and at a time where scientific discoveries were frowned upon by religious leaders, Aryabhatta overcame all the odds and discovered various things in mathematics, astronomy and physics that the scientists today are thankful for. To stand up against the entire society of blind belief and establish scientific theories thousands of years back was in itself a great accomplishment by Aryabhatta.
I would like to conclude by saying that without the inventions and the brilliance of the first mathematician of India, Aryabhatta, the science as we study today would be very different. It was because of his inventions of a number system, area of triangle or volume of a sphere that many other inventions were given birth to. If science can be traced back, experts suggest that even the technological revolution that is happening today, for example, the writing of binary codes, was all possible because of the invention of the number system and the invention of the number zero by Aryabhatta. The people of India and people of the world owes a great amount of gratitude to this great scientist and mathematician, Aryabhatta.
