Indian Rulers
Aryabhata
Father of Indian Mathematics
Aryabhata was an Indian scholar active in the 5th c. AD during the Gupta period from the state of Gupta. Died of natural causes.
Historical Note
Born 476 AD. At twenty-three he wrote the Aryabhatiya — declared the earth rotates on its axis, gave π to four decimal places, and solved indeterminate equations the Greeks had left untouched. The Arabs took his work west; al-Khwarizmi built on it; Europe inherited it.