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SAL INSTITUTE OF DIPLOMA STUDIES

Aryabhata I[3][4] (476–550 CE)was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics
and Indian astronomy. His works include the Aryabhatiya (which mentions that in 3600 Kali Yuga, 499 CE, he was 23 years old) and
the Arya-siddhanta.

Place value system and zero:


The place-value system, first seen in the 3rd-century Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in place in his work. While he did not use a
symbol for zero, the French mathematician Georges Ifrah argues that knowledge of zero was implicit in Aryabhata's place-value
system as a place holder for the powers of ten with null coefficients.
However, Aryabhata did not use the Brahmi numerals. Continuing the Sanskritic tradition from Vedic times, he used letters of the
alphabet to denote numbers, expressing quantities, such as the table of sines in a mnemonic form

Approximation of π :-
Aryabhata worked on the approximation for pi (π), and may have come to the conclusion that π is irrational. In the second part of
the Aryabhatiyam (ganitapada 10), he writes:
caturadhikam satamastagunam dvasastistatha sahasranam
ayutadvayaviskambhasyasanno vrttaparinahah.
"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.
This implies that for a circle whose diameter is 20000, the circumference will be 62832
i.e, π = 6283220000 = 3.1416, which is accurate to two parts in one million.
It is speculated that Aryabhata used the word asanna (approaching), to mean that not only is this an approximation but that the
value is incommensurable (or irrational). If this is correct, it is quite a sophisticated insight, because the irrationality of pi (π) was
proved in Europe only in 1761 by Lambert.
After Aryabhatiya was translated into Arabic (c. 820 CE), this approximation was mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's book on algebra.

PREPARED BY KAUSHAL PANCHAL GUIDED BY :- VISHWA PATEL


ROLL NO - 38,BRANCH- IT-A

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