Sudhakara Dvivedi

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Sudhakara Dvivedi (* 1855 in Khajuri near Varanasi ; † 1910 ) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, mathematician and mathematician.

He studied with the scholar Devakrsna and in 1883 became a librarian at the Government Sanskrit College in Varanasi. In 1890 he became a teacher (professor) for mathematics and astrology as the successor to Bapu Deva Sastri . Later he was professor and head of the mathematics faculty at Queen's College in Benares (Varasani). In 1905 he retired. He was succeeded by Ganesh Prasad (1876-1935), who had trained in Allahabad, Cambridge and Göttingen , before becoming a professor at the University of Calcutta.

Dvivedi was with Bapu Deva Sastri one of the most important mathematicians in India in the 19th century. Deva Shastri published translations of the astronomical Sanskrit texts Surya Siddhanta (also part of the Pancasiddhantika) and Siddhanta Siromani (by Bhaskara II ) with Wilkinson in 1861 .

As a mathematician, he dealt with number theory (Diophantine equations), among other things. He wrote English textbooks on calculus and algebra, books on properties of the ellipse and spherical trigonometry, and edited a Sanskrit edition of Euclid's Elements.

He edited several Sanskrit books on mathematics and astronomy by classical Indian mathematicians, such as Bhaskara II (Lilavati 1879, Bijaganita 1889, Siddhantasiromani), Brahmagupta (Brahmasphutasiddhanta, The Pandit 1902), Aryabhata II (Maha-Sanskrit Studies, Benares. Benares 1910), Kamalakara . With George Thibaut he published the astronomical collection Pancasiddhantika from Varahamihira in 1889 .

In 1910 his History of Hindu Mathematics appeared in Benares . Previously, he published a book on traditional astronomers and mathematicians in India Ganakatarangini in 1892 .

literature

  • Radha Charan Gupta Sudhakara Dvivedi (1855-1910), Historian of Indian Astronomy and Mathematics , Ganita Bharati, Volume 12, 1990, pp. 83-96
  • RC Gupta: History of Mathematics in India , in: Student's Britannica, India , Volume 6, Select Essays, 2000, p. 310

References and comments

  1. ^ The first Indian to do a PhD in mathematics
  2. ↑ He also published a history of mathematics, Some great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. Their life and works , 2 volumes, 1933/34; his students B. Datta and AN Singh are the authors of the History of Hindu Mathematics , 2 volumes, 1935 ( online at archive.org ), 1938
  3. ↑ Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta
personal data
SURNAME Dvivedi, Sudhakara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian mathematician and mathematician historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Khajuri
DATE OF DEATH 1910