Sudhakar Dvivedi

Sudhakar Dvivedi (1855–1910) was an Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics. He was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near Varanasi. At an early age he was attracted to mathematics, which he studied under Pandit Devakrsna. In 1883 he was appointed librarian in the Government Sanskrit College , Varanasi where in 1890 he was appointed the teacher of mathematics and astrology after Bapudeva Sastri, retired in 1889. Dvivedi wrote a number of translations, commentaries and treatises, including one on algebra which included topics such as Pellian equations, squares, and Diophantine equations.^[1]

In Sanskrit

• Chalan Kalan
• Deergha Vritta Lakshan (which means characteristics of ellipse)
• Goleeya Rekha Ganit(which means sphere line mathematics)
• Samikaran Meemansa(which means analysis of equations)
• Yajusha Jyauti-sham and Archa Jyauti-sham
• Ganakatarangini(1892)^[2]
• Euclid 's 6 th, 11 th and 12 th parts
• Lilavati(1879)
• Bijaganita (1889)
• Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira: Co-edited with George Thibaut
• Surya Siddhanta
• Brahmasphutasiddhanta (in 1902)
• Aryabhata II's Maha-Siddhanta (in 1910)

In Hindi

• Differential Calculus (1886)^[3]
• Integral Calculus(1895)^[4]
• Theory of equations(1897)
• A History of Hindu mathematics I(1910)

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