THE GREATMEN OF ANCIENT INDIA
ARYABHATT (476 CE) MASTER ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN v Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur ( Bihar ), Aryabhatt's intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics and astronomy. v In 499 CE, at the age of 23, he wrote a text on astronomy and an unparallel treatise on mathematics called "Aryabhatiyam." v He formulated the process of calculating the motion of planets and the time of eclipses. v Aryabhatt was the first to proclaim that the earth is round, it rotates on its axis, orbits the sun and is suspended in space - 1000 years before Copernicus published his heliocentric theory. v He is also acknowledged for calculating p (Pi) to four decimal places: 3.1416 and the sine table in trigonometry. v His most spectacular contribution was the concept of zero without which modern computer technology would have been n...