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Aryabhata
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“The globe of the Earth stands supportless in space... Just as the [spherical] bulb of a Kadamba flower is covered all around by blossoms, just so is the globe of the Earth surrounded by all creatures, terrestrial as well as aquatic.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aryabhata, (Aryabhatiya, Gola 6-7), quoted in C. K. Raju. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe. Pearson Education India, 2007
“When sixty times sixty years and three quarter yugas (of the current yuga) had elapsed, twenty three years had then passed since my birth.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
“Just as a man in a boat moving forward sees the stationary objects (on either side of the river) as moving backward, just so are the stationary stars seen by people at Lanka as moving exactly towards the west. (It so appears as if ) the entire structure of the asterisms together with the planets were moving exactly towards the west of Lanka, being constantly driven by the provector wind, to cause their rising and setting.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
“100 plus 4, multiplied by 8, and added to 62,000: this is the nearly approximate measure of the circumference of a circle whose diameter is 20,000.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: According to the verse, Aryabhata’s value of π equals ((100+4)×8 + 62000)/20000, which is 3.1416. Ganitapada 10
“In Indian astronomy, the prime meridian is the great circle of the Earth passing through the north and south poles, Ujjayinī and Laṅkā, where Laṅkā was assumed to be on the Earth's equator.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“caturadhikam śatamaṣṭaguṇam dvāṣaṣṭistathā sahasrāṇām ayutadvayaviṣkambhasyāsanno vṛttapariṇāhaḥ.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Translates to: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached. Thus according to the rule ((4 + 100) × 8 + 62000)/20000 = 62832/20000 = 3.1416, which is accurate to five significant figures.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Arijit Roy The Enigma of Creation and Destruction, Author House, 28 October 2011, p. 27
“tribhujasya phalashariram samadalakoti bhujardhasamvargah”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Translates to: for a triangle, the result of a perpendicular with the half-side is the area.”
Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source