Aryabhata (476 CE) - (There would no computer if Aryabhata do not introduce zero ) - Short Bio

Master Astronomer and mathematician

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Aryabhata (476 CE) - Master Astronomer and mathematician

Born in 476 CE in Kusumapura (Bihar). Aryabhata's intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of Mathematics and Astronomy. In 499 CE, at the age of 23, he wrote a text on astronomy and an unparallel treatise on Mathematics called "Aryabhatiyam." He formulated the process of calculating the motion of planets and the time of eclipses. Aryabhata was the first to proclaim that the earth is round, it rotates on its axis, orbits the sun and is suspended in space-1000 years before, and Copernicus published his heliocentric theory. He is also acknowledged for calculating 71 (Pi) to four decimal places: 3.1416 and the sine table in trigonometry. Centuries later, in 825 CE, the Arab mathematician, Mohammed Ibna Musa credited the value of Pi to the Indians, "This value has been given by the Indians." And above all, his most spectacular contribution was the concept of zero without which modern computer technology would have been non-existent. Aryabhata was a colossus in the field of Mathematics.