Sudhakara Dvivedi (1855-1910) was an Indian scholar in

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Biography

Sudhakara Dvivedi was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near

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. In childhood he studied mathematics under Pandit Devakrsna. In 1883 he was appointed a librarian in the Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi where in 1898 he was appointed the teacher of

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retired in 1889. He was the head of mathematics department in Queen's college Benaras from where he retired in 1905 and mathematician Ganesh Prasad became the new head of department. Dvivedi wrote a number of translations, commentaries and treatises, including one on

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which included topics such as Pellian equations, squares, and

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Works in Sanskrit

*''Chalan Kalan'' *''Deergha Vritta Lakshan'' ("Characteristics of Ellipse") *''Goleeya Rekha Ganit'' ("Sphere Line Mathematics") *''Samikaran Meemansa'' ("Analysis of Equations") *''Yajusha Jyauti-sham and Archa Jyauti-sham'' *''Ganakatarangini'' (1892) *

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6th, 11th and 12th parts *'' Lilavati'' (1879) *''

Bijaganita ''Bijaganita'' ( iːd͡ʒəgəɳit̪ᵊ, -ɪt̪ᵊ IAST: ') was treatise on algebra by the Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. It is the second volume of his main work '' Siddhānta Shiromani (''"Crown of treatises") alongside '' Lilāvati'', ''G ...

'' (1889) *'' Pañcasiddhāntikā of

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Brahmagupta Brahmagupta ( – ) was an Indian Indian mathematics, mathematician and Indian astronomy, astronomer. He is the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy: the ''Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta'' (BSS, "correctly established Siddhanta, do ...

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Aryabhata II Āryabhaṭa (c. 920 – c. 1000) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer, and the author of the ''Maha-Siddhanta''. The numeral II is given to him to distinguish him from the earlier and more influential Āryabhaṭa I. Scholars are ...

's Maha-Siddhanta'' (1910)

Works in Hindi

*''Differential Calculus'' (1886) *''Integral Calculus'' (1895) *''Theory of equations'' (1897) *''A History of Hindu mathematics I'' (1910)

References

External links

Yajusha Jyauti-sham
19th-century Indian mathematicians Scholars from Varanasi 1855 births 1910 deaths Hindu astronomy Sanskrit scholars from Uttar Pradesh Indian historians of mathematics 20th-century Indian mathematicians Mathematicians from British India {{Hindu-bio-stub