The mentor of numbers and astro-science

Life is a sum of complex numbers and man is hypnotized by the ever growing volumes, density, unknown factors, addition, subtraction, series, algorithms and geometry of his destiny and always wished a way to predict his future. Well the answer lies in many hidden pits of numbers and its mentor the great visionary from India named Brahmagupta famous for his work in the field of mathematics and the art of fore telling, the science known as astronomy.

A brief review of his genuine intelligent work will prove why he is called the mentor of numbers and astronomy

1) Algebra:- In the field of mathematics, this art is construed for finding the missing links or the unknown factor X as generally taught to us in our schools .The key significance is Algebra always concludes the factor X required to distribute salary percentage or ratio in which the proper distribution has to be made. Brahmagupta gave three formulas

1) X=e-c / b-d
2) X=v4ac+b2 -b/2a
3) X=vac+b2 /4-b/2

The basic difference between these simplified formulates and the original ones is that he placed numbers side by side for addition and dots for subtraction for division he placed divisor below dividend and represented multiplication by abbreviations.

2) Arithmetic: - This is in-fact the most commonly used ancient art of calculation. here Brahmagupta in chapter 12 of his famous book Brahmasphutasiddhanta promulgates five types of fraction combinations


A general view of Brahmagupta's work
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3) Series: -Our math teachers often exclaimed “2 raised to the power of n plus the natural number series”. The squares and cubes, its quiet confusing for a novice but this visionary has that answer which many of our teachers forget to tell us.

He gives the sum of the squares of the first n natural numbers as n(n+1)(2n+1)/6 and the sum of the cubes of the first n natural numbers as (n(n+1)/2)

4) Other accomplishments:- Among other accomplishments of Brahmagupta comes the discovery of Zero and its calculations with different negative and positive integers, in chapter 12 Brahmagupta discusses the details about Diophantine analysis , Pythagorean triples and Pell’s equation for breaking numbers into several pieces and theorems relating to generalization of identity

5) Geometry:- Brahmagupta was equally a past master in the field of shapes sizes and volumes he developed formulae and concepts to measure area and exact area of cyclic quadrilateral
His other discoveries include the value of pi and methods of measuring length, breath volume and depth.

Although he made so many mathematical discoveries his sine tables based on the trigonometrical longitudes of planets aid a lot in modern gigantic calculations and calculations in the field of astronomy. What Galileo and Newton felt at later stages about earth’s shape and gravity Brahamgupta had discovered hundreds of years ago.

Acknowledging such vast collection of mathematical discoveries of Bhramagupta it will be an honor to call him mentor of words and that of medieval scientists of the Newtonian era from west.
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Brahmagupta taught us basic mathematics

Brahmagupta describes about Zero as one of the numerals which stood for meaning nothing. He also elaborates as to how integers positive and negative consequence when played with zero.

A general view of Brahmagupta’s enormous work


A brief review of his genuine intelligent work will prove why he is called the mentor of numbers and astronomy.

The gravitational pull of Brahmagupta and Newton

The decision  should be left on the people and the world to be decided, which gravitational pull is attracting them more Newton or Brahamagupta’s.

Significance of Brahmagupta discoveries in modern world

If someone questions about the significance of Brahamgupta’s work it will be like questioning the existence of man itself.

Cultural and time travel of Brahmagupta and his concepts

His simple formulae about the cyclic quadrilateral in a circle have become more complex and easier with the help of computers who bargain the millions of calculations in a wink of an eye.