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Bhāskara I

600 - 680

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Bhāskara (c. 600 – c. 680) (commonly called Bhāskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th-century mathematician Bhāskara II) was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer who was the first to write numbers in the Hindu–Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work. This commentary, Āryabhaṭīyabhāṣya, written in 629 CE, is among the oldest known prose works in Sanskrit on mathematics and astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhāskara I has received more than 717,253 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Bhāskara I is the 537th most popular mathematician (up from 557th in 2019), the 410th most popular biography from India (down from 371st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Bhāskara I ranks 537 out of 823. Before him are Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Serge Lang, Max Noether, Sydney Chapman, Robert Axelrod, and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf. After him are Boris Delaunay, Simon von Stampfer, Pingala, Harold Hotelling, Dmitri Egorov, and John Cairncross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600, Bhāskara I ranks 54. Before him are Gisulf II of Friuli, Sigeberht the Good, Eadbald of Kent, Gisulf I of Friuli, Ceol of Wessex, and Ælla of Deira. After him are Mellitus, Justus, Ino Anastasia, Ceolwulf of Wessex, Zotto, and Faroald I of Spoleto. Among people deceased in 680, Bhāskara I ranks 7. Before him are Husayn ibn Ali, Muawiyah I, Abbas ibn Ali, Princess Wencheng, Abdullah ibn Ja'far, and Balthild of Chelles. After him are Hilda of Whitby and Cædmon.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhāskara I ranks 410 out of 1,493. Before him are Ibn Warraq (1946), Anupam Kher (1955), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), The Great Khali (1972), Brian Horrocks (1895), and Sabu Dastagir (1924). After him are Priyanka Chopra (1982), Balaji Vishwanath (1662), Jaswant Singh (1938), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), C. N. Annadurai (1909), and Madhubala (1933).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Bhāskara I ranks 7. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Brahmagupta (598), Bhāskara II (1114), Augustus De Morgan (1806), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), and Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350). After him are Jai Singh II (1688), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), and Harish-Chandra (1923).

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