Bibhutibhushan Datta

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Bibhutibhushan Datta

Bibhutibhushan Datta (also Bibhuti Bhusan Datta and quoted as BB Datta ; Bengali বিভূতিভূষণ দত্ত Bibhūtibhūṣaṇ Datta ; * June 28, 1888 in Kanungopara , Bengal ; † October 6, 1958 in Pushkar , Rajasthan ) was an Indian mathematician.

Life

Datta came from a poor Bengali family from a village in the Chittagong district in eastern Bengal . He was a student of Ganesh Prasad , graduated from the University of Calcutta with a master's degree in mathematics in 1914, and received his doctorate in applied mathematics, specifically hydrodynamics, in 1921. He taught at Calcutta University, where he was a lecturer at the University Science College and from 1924 to 1929 Rhashbehari Ghosh Professor of Applied Mathematics. He built a reputation as an authority on Indian mathematics history in the 1920s and 1930s, but he also delved into Indian philosophy and religion. In 1929 he retired from his professorship and in 1933 completely left the university and in 1938 became a sannyasin under the name Swami Bidyaranya.

His history of Indian mathematics with Avadhesh Narayan Singh (1901–1954) from the 1930s became a standard work. However, only the first two volumes appeared because Datta withdrew in the 1930s and Singh, who founded the Hindu Mathematics Department at the University of Lucknow , was overloaded with administrative tasks. He also wrote a monograph on the Sulbasutras . He published around 50 research papers.

Even before his time as a sannyasin, he was not interested in material things and never married.

Fonts

  • with Avadhesh Narayan Singh: History of indian mathematics. A source book , 2 volumes, Lahore (Motilal Banarsidass) 1935 ( online at archive.org) , 1938, Reprint Asia Publishing House 1962 in one volume
    • Volume 3 was edited by Kripa Shankar Shukla in several articles in Indian J. History Science (Volume 5, 1980 to Volume 28, 1993), Indian Geometry, Indian Journal of the History of Science, Volume 15, 1980, pp. 21-187 , Indian Trigonometry, Indian Journal of the History of Science, Volume 18, 1983, pp. 39-108
  • Ancient Hindu geometry. The science of the Sulba , University of Calcutta, Calcutta 1932, Reprint Calcutta 1991, New Delhi, Cosmo Publ. 1993
  • Origin of the history of Hindu names in geometry , sources and studies on the history of mathematics, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1929 (Otto Neugebauer et al. Ed.)
  • Geometry in the Jaina cosmography , sources and studies on the history of mathematics, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1930
  • Hindu Contribution to mathematics, Bulletin of the Allahabad University Mathematical Association , Volume 1, 1927, pp. 49-73, Volume 2, 1929, 1-36

literature

  • Phillip S. Jones, Obituary in Historia Mathematica , Volume 3, 1976, pp. 77-78
  • RC Gupta : Bibhutibhusan Datta (1888-1958), historian of Indian mathematics , Historia Mathematica , Volume 7, May 1980, pp. 126-133
  • RC Gupta, Biographie in Dauben, Scriba (Ed.) Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 404/05
  • Sukomai Dutt: Bhibhutti Bhusan Datta (1888-1958) or Swami Vidyaranya, Ghanita Bharata , Volume 10, 1988, pp. 3-15 (with publications and picture)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Mathematics student, Vol. 55-56 , Srinivasa Voradachari & Company, 1987, p. 117
  2. ↑ Life data see Dauben, Scriba, Writing the History of Mathematics, Birkhäuser 2002, p. 404
  3. ^ RC Gupta in Dauben, Scriba Writing the history of mathematics , pp. 314f
personal data
SURNAME Datta, Bibhutibhushan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bidyaranya, Swami
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanungopara , Bengal
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1958
Place of death Pushkar , Rajasthan