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Bhāskara I
Indian mathematician and astronomer ()
For others with the same name, see Bhaskara (disambiguation).
Bhāskara (c.– c.) (commonly called Bhāskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th-century mathematicianBhāskara II) was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer who was the first to write numbers in the Hindu–Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work.[3] This commentary, Āryabhaṭīyabhāṣya, written in , is among the oldest known prose works in Sanskrit on mathematics and astronomy.
He also wrote two astronomical works in the line of Aryabhata's school: the Mahābhāskarīya ("Great Book of Bhāskara") and the Laghubhāskarīya ("Small Book of Bhāskara").[3][4]
On 7 June , the Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Bhāskara I satellite, named in honour of the mathematician.[5]