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Aryabhata

476 - 550

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Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I (476–550 CE) was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aryabhata has received more than 9,534,364 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Aryabhata is the 16th most popular astronomer (up from 17th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from India (up from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Astronomer.

Aryabhata was a mathematician and astronomer who is most famous for developing the concept of zero and the number system that is used today.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Aryabhata ranks 16 out of 644. Before him are Ja'far al-Sadiq, Aristarchus of Samos, Edwin Hubble, Hipparchus, Ole Rømer, and Carl Sagan. After him are Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Messier, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, and Avempace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 476, Aryabhata ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 550, Aryabhata ranks 1. After him are Damascius, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Albinus of Angers, John Troglita, and Buddhapālita.

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    Aryabhata

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    476 - 550

    HPI: 71.20

    Rank: 1

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In India

Among people born in India, Aryabhata ranks 26 out of 1,861. Before him are Ānanda (-600), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Valmiki (-80), and Kālidāsa (400). After him are Sariputta (-568), Salman Rushdie (1947), Jahangir (1569), Adi Shankara (788), Aishwarya Rai (1973), and Aurangzeb (1618).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In India

Among astronomers born in India, Aryabhata ranks 1. After him are Varāhamihira (505), and Philip Herbert Cowell (1870).

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