I recently received a little bit of information regarding some of India's great thinkers from ancient times so I thought I'd share it with you. It's incredible how advanced our civilization was. Just something more to make you truly proud to be Indian... If you get a chance, click on those links for some more in-depth information. It's insane how much he knew...
Who was Aryabhatt?
MASTER ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN
Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur ( Bihar ), Aryabhatt's intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics and astronomy. In 499 CE, at the age of 23, he wrote a text on astronomy and an unparallel treatise on mathematics called "Aryabhatiyam." He formulated the process of calculating the motion of planets and the time of eclipses. 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. He is also acknowledged for calculating p (Pi) to four decimal places: 3.1416 and the sine table in trigonometry. Centuries later, in 825 CE, the Arab mathematician, Mohammed Ibna Musa credited the value of Pi to the Indians, "This value has been given by the Hindus." And above all, his most spectacular contribution was the concept of zero without which modern computer technology would have been non-existent. Aryabhatt was a colossus in the field of mathematics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/t_dy/t_dy_Q8.htm
(Gola and Ganita are some of his works and these are quotes directly from them! Insane stuff...)
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