Biography:Sudhakara Dvivedi
Sudhakara Dvivedi (1855–1910) was an Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics.
Biography
Sudhakara Dvivedi was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near Varanasi. 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 mathematics and astrology after Bapudeva Sastri retired in 1889.[1]
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.[2] Dvivedi wrote a number of translations, commentaries and treatises, including one on algebra which included topics such as Pellian equations, squares, and Diophantine equations.[3]
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)[4]
- Euclid's Elements 6th, 11th and 12th parts
- Lilavati (1879)
- Bijaganita (1889)
- Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira (1889): Co-edited with George Thibaut[5]
- Surya Siddhanta
- Brahmagupta’s Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, 1902, ("Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta". 1902. http://www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/628CE-Brahmasphutasiddhanta_Brahmagupta_Parts_1-4_by_Sudhakara-Dvivedin_with_Sanskrit_Commentary_1902_India_Compiled_by_Jonathan_Crabtree_2014-Australia.pdf.)
- Aryabhata II's Maha-Siddhanta (1910)
Works in Hindi
- Differential Calculus (1886)[4]
- Integral Calculus (1895)[4]
- Theory of equations (1897)[4]
- A History of Hindu mathematics I (1910)
References
- ↑ Joseph W. Dauben; Christoph J. Scriba (23 September 2002). Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 312–313. ISBN 978-3-7643-6167-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&pg=312.
- ↑ Prasad, Ganesh. Some great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. Krishna Prakashan Media. p. xi.
- ↑ Patwardhan, K.S.; Naimpally, A.S.; Singh, Shyamlal (2001). Līlāvatī of Bhāskarācārya: a treatise of mathematics of Vedic tradition : with rationale in terms of modern mathematics largely based on N.H. Phadke's Marāthī translation of Līlāvatī. Motilal Banarsidass. p. xx. ISBN 978-81-208-1420-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=AoX5q7JjM2kC&pg=PR20. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Hoiberg, Dale (2000). Students' Britannica India:Select essays. India: Popular Prakashan. pp. 333. ISBN 9780852297629.
- ↑ "Metric Measures, Volumes 7-8". 1964. University of California. 1964. p. 12. https://books.google.com/books?id=KkE3AQAAIAAJ.
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