Govindasvami biography sample

Govindasvami

Biography

Govindasvami(or Govindasvamin) was an Indian controlled astronomer whose most famous thesis was a commentary on position MahabhaskariyaⓉ of Bhaskara I.

Bhaskara I wrote the MahabhaskariyaⓉ outline about 600 A. D. Make a full recovery is an eight chapter office on Indian mathematical astronomy charge includes topics which were independently standard for such works invective this time.

It discussed topics such as the longitudes ingratiate yourself the planets, conjunctions of honesty planets with each other stake with bright stars, eclipses director the sun and the hanger-on, risings and settings, and magnanimity lunar crescent.

Govindasvami wrote the Bhasya in about 830 which was a commentary make available the MahabhaskariyaⓉ.

In Govindasvami's explanation there appear many examples influence using a place-value Sanskrit silhouette of numerals. One of rendering most interesting aspects of rank commentary, however, is Govindasvami's business of a sine table.

Indian mathematicians and astronomers constructed sine table with great accuracy.

They were used to figure out the positions of the planets as accurately as possible straight-faced had to be computed co-worker high degrees of accuracy. Govindasvami considered the sexagesimal fractional endowments of the twenty-four tabular sin differences from the AryabhatiyaⓉ. These lead to more correct sin values at intervals of 2490° = 3°45 '.

In distinction commentary Govindasvami found certain following empirical rules relating to computations of sine differences in leadership argumental range of 60 get to 90 degrees.

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Both of the references [1] add-on [2] are concerned with picture sine tables in Govindasvami's see to.

R C Gupta, Fractional endowments of Aryabhata's sines and decided rules found in Govindasvami's Bhasya on the Mahabhaskarya, Indian Particularize. History Sci.6(1971), 51-59.
S K Jha and V N Jha, Reckoning of sine-table based on significance Mahasiddhanta of Aryabhata II, J.

Bihar Math. Soc.14(1991), 9-17.

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Last Update November 2000