Aryabhatta : A great mathematician.
Aryabhatta is a mathematician who had a humble beginning during the Gupta dynasty in a small village in Bihar known as Aryabhata. Breaking all the religious stereotypes and social stigma at that point of time, Aryabhatta rose above all the difficulties and became the first mathematician and scientist of India and gave birth to the theories of modern science and mathematics that we study today.
Aryabhatta was the first mathematician, astronomer and scientist of India who created or discovered the number zero, the place value system, algebraic identities, trigonometrical functions, the value of pi, the shape of the solar system and the whole concept of rotation and revolution of planets. The contribution of Aryabhatta to the field of science and mathematics is immense. Because of his discoveries and inventions, a lot of other discoveries in various other fields from physics to medicine to engineering has been given birth to. The scientific community of today is forever grateful to the inventions of Aryabhatta thousands of years back.
I would like to conclude by saying that the inventions of Aryabhatta stand as a testimony for the intellectual brilliance and advanced thinking of Indian society thousands of years back. Although the credit for many scientific discoveries is taken by people from the west, the inventions and discoveries by Indians and Hindus in the country thousands of years back holds a special place in the world of science and mathematics.
