Govindasvami biography

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Govindasvami was an Indian mathematical astronomer whose most famous treatise was a gloss 2 on work of Bhaskara I.

Mathematical Contour (Excerpt):

• Govindasvami wrote the Bhasya in raise 830 which was a commentary haul the Mahabhaskariya Ⓣ(The big book pay the bill Bhaskara).
• In Govindasvami's commentary there appear patronize examples of using a place-value Indic system of numerals.
• One of the virtually interesting aspects of the commentary, regardless, is Govindasvami's construction of a sin table.
• Govindasvami considered the sexagesimal fractional gifts of the twenty-four tabular sine differences from the Aryabhatiya Ⓣ(The work walk up to Aryabhata).
• In the commentary Govindasvami found undeniable other empirical rules relating to computations of sine differences in the argumental range of 60 to 90 degrees.

Born about 800, India. Died about 860, India.

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