Bapudeva Sastri or Narasimha Deva Paranjpe (1821–1900) was an Indian mathematician.

Biography

He was born on 1 November 1821, to a

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family of

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. He received his early education in

arithmetic Arithmetic () is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers— addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. In the 19th ...

and

algebra Algebra () is one of the broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics. Elementary ...

at the Marathi school in

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. He also studied the Lilāvati and Bijaganita under ''Dhundiraja Misra''. Noting his talent, the British political agent

Lancelot Wilkinson Lancelot Wilkinson (22 June 1805 – 13 November 1841) was a British political officer and civil servant who worked in the service of the East India Company in India in Bhopal, in the Bombay Presidency. He was also an Indologist, publishing transl ...

secured his admission to the Sehore Sanskrit school where he studied

Siddhānta Shiromani ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' (Sanskrit: सिद्धान्त शिरोमणि for "Crown of treatises") is the major treatise of Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. He wrote the ''Siddhānta Śiromaṇi'' in 1150 when he was 36 years old. ...

, Euclidean Geometry and European science in general under Pandit Sevarama and Wilkinson himself. In 1842 Sastri went to

Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya (IAST: ; formerly Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya and Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi) is an Indian university and institution of higher learning located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, specializing i ...

, where he taught rekha-ganita (Euclidean Geometry). In 1890 Sudhakar Dwivedi was appointed the teacher of

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and

astrology Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Di ...

after Bapudeva Sastri, retired in 1889.

Scholarly works

Bapudeva Sastri translated the

(a treatise on Hindu mathematics written in the twelfth century by Bhaskaracharya) and published it in

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in 1891. With Lancelot Wilkinson, Sastri wrote commentary on ''The

Surya Siddhanta The ''Surya Siddhanta'' (; ) is a Sanskrit treatise in Indian astronomy dated to 505 CE,Menso Folkerts, Craig G. Fraser, Jeremy John Gray, John L. Berggren, Wilbur R. Knorr (2017)Mathematics Encyclopaedia Britannica, Quote: "(...) its Hindu inven ...

'' (a treatise on Hindu astronomy). * '' English translation of the Surya Siddhanta and the Siddhanta Siromani by Sastri'', 1861

References

*1. Somanath Vyas, Hindu Savan

External links

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