BRAHMAGUPTA
Mathematician (597-c.668)
The great 7th Century Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta wrote some important works on both mathematics and astronomy.
Brahmagupta (597-c. 668)
Why is Zero Important?
Although it might appear glaringly evident to us since zero is a number, and clear that we can create it by deducting a number from itself, and that separating zero by a non-zero number answers zero, these outcomes are not really self-evident.
The splendid mathematicians of Ancient Greece, so long ways relatively revolutionary from various perspectives, had not had the option to make this discovery. Neither had any other individual until Brahmagupta tagged along!
It was a gigantic reasonable jump to see that zero is a number in its own right. When this jump had been made, arithmetic and science could gain ground that would some way or another have been unimaginable.
Brahmagupta’s Theorem on cyclic quadrilaterals
Brahmagupta even endeavored to record these somewhat dynamic ideas, utilizing the initials of the names of shadings to speak to questions in his conditions, perhaps the soonest suggestion of what we currently know as polynomial math.
Brahmagupta devoted a significant part of his work to calculation and geometry. He set up √10 (3.162277) as a descent down to earth guess for π (3.141593) and gave an equation, presently known as Brahmagupta's Formula, for the zone of a cyclic quadrilateral, just as a praised hypothesis on the diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral, ordinarily alluded to as Brahmagupta's Theorem.
