Radha Charan Gupta

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Radha Charan Gupta (* 1935 in Jhansi , Uttar Pradesh ) is an Indian mathematician .

Life

Gupta studied at the University of Lucknow , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1955 and his master's degree in mathematics in 1957. Then he was a lecturer at Lucknow Christian College and from 1958 at the Birla Institute of Technology in Ranchi . In 1982 he received a full professorship there and in 1995 he retired.

Gupta has been concerned with the history of mathematics since the late 1960s, especially the development of Indian trigonometry , for example via Parameshvara and his approximation of the sine function and Govindasvamin and his interpolation of sine tables in the 8th century. In 1971 he received his doctorate from the math historian T. A. Saraswati Amma at Ranchi University .

Gupta also studied the early mathematics of the Jain School (up to the 6th century). In 2009 he received the Kenneth O. May Prize . Since 1991 he has been a member of the Indian National Academy of Sciences. He has been President of the Society of Mathematics Teachers in India since 1994 (which he still is in 2009). In 1995 he became a corresponding member of the International Academy of History of Science. In 1979 he founded the journal Ganita Bharati ( Indian Mathematics ), of which he was editor and columnist.

Fonts

  • Historiography of Mathematics in India. In: Dauben, Scriba (editor): Writing the History of Mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gupta An Indian form of third order Taylor series approximation of the sine , Historia Mathematica, Volume 1, 1974, pp. 287-289
  2. ↑ Gupta Fractional parts of Aryabhata's sines and certain rules found in Govindasvamin's Bhasya on the Mahabhaskariya , Indian Journal of History of Science, Volume 6, 1971, pp. 51-59
  3. ^ Author of Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India
  4. ↑ Jaina Mathematics at McTutor, with references
personal data
SURNAME Gupta, Radha Charan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Jhansi , Uttar Pradesh