'Life and work Essay\r'

'Brahmagupta is believed to have been born in 598 AD in Bhinmal city in the state of Rajasthan of north-west India. In ancient times Bhillamala was the seat of creator of the Gurjars. His father was Jisnugupta.[2] He likely lived most of his disembodied spirit in Bhillamala (modern Bhinmal in Rajasthan) during the reign (and possibly infra the patronage) of King Vyaghramukha.[3] As a result, Brahmagupta is of hug drug referred to as Bhillamalacharya, that is, the teacher from Bhillamala. He was the head of the astronomic watch at Ujjain, and during his tenure there wrote four texts on mathematics and astronomy: the Cadamekela in 624, the Brahmasphutasiddhanta in 628, the Khandakhadyaka in 665, and the Durkeamynarda in 672. The Brahmasphutasiddhanta (Corrected Treatise of Brahma) is arguably his most famous work. The historiographer al-Biruni (c. 1050) in his book Tariq al-Hind states that the Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun had an embassy in India and from India a book was bro ught to Baghdad which was translated into Arabic as Sindhind. It is principally presumed that Sindhind is none other than Brahmagupta’s Brahmasphuta-siddhanta.[4] Although Brahmagupta was familiar with the deeds of astronomers following the tradition of Aryabhatiya, it is not known if he was familiar with the work of Bhaskara I, a contemporary.[3]Brahmagupta had a plethora of reprimand directed towards the work of rival astronomers, and in his Brahmasphutasiddhanta is found one of the earliest attested schisms among Indian mathematicians. The division was primarily about the application of mathematics to the physical world, rather than about the mathematics itself. In Brahmagupta’s case, the disagreements stemmed largely from the choice of astronomical parameters and theories.[3] Critiques of rival theories appear throughout the first ten astronomical chapters and the eleventh chapter is entirely devoted to criticism of these theories, although no criticisms appear in the twelfth and eighteenth chapters.\r\n'