Sudhakar Dwivedi
Sudhakar Dwivedi (1855–1910) was an Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics.
Biography
Sudhakar Dwivedi was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near Varanasi. In childhood he studied mathematics under Pandit Devakrsna.
In 1883 he was appointed a 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.[1]
He was the head of the mathematics department in Queen's College Benaras from where he retired in 1905 and mathematician Ganesh Prasad became the new head of the department.[2]
Dwivedi wrote a number of translations, commentaries, and treatises, including one on algebra which included topics such as Pellian equations, squares, and Diophantine equations.
In his memory, one of his family members, the visionary Pt. Jai Narain Dubey, started a small school named Sudhakar Mahila Vidyalaya for educating local girls living in the vicinity of Khajuri. Because of his and his wife Smt. Shanti Dubey's arduous efforts the college today is Sudhakar Mahilaya Post Graduate College, Varanasi. The trust founded by Pt. Jai Narain Dubey now operates four institutions in his name: Sudhakar Mahilaya Post Graduate College, Sudhakar Mahilaya Intermediate College, Sudhakar Mahilaya Women's Law College, and Sudhakar Mahilaya Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya. The principal of Sudhakar Mahilaya Post Graduate College is Shri Prabhu Narain Dube, son of Pt. Jai Narain Dubey . [3]
Works in sanskrit
- Chalan Kalan
- Deergha Vritta Lakshan ("Characteristics of Ellipse")
- Goleeya Rekha Ganit ("Sphere Line Mathematics")
- Samikaran Meemansa ("Analysis of Equations")
- Yajusha Jyauti-sham and Archa Jyauti-sham
- Ganakatarangini (1892)[4]
- Euclid's Elements 6th, 11th and 12th parts
- Lilavati (1879)
- Bijaganita (1889)
- Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira (1889): Co-edited with George Thibaut[5]
- Surya Siddhanta
- Brahmagupta’s Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, 1902, ("Brahmagupta’s Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta" (PDF). 1902. Retrieved 25 Aug 2015.)
- Aryabhata II's Maha-Siddhanta (1910)
Works in Hindi
- Differential Calculus (1886)[4]
- Integral Calculus (1895)[4]
- Theory of equations (1897)[4]
- A History of Hindu mathematics I (1910)
References
- ↑ edited by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba. Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development. Springer. pp. 312–313.
- ↑ Prasad, Ganesh. Some great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. Krishna Prakashan Media. p. xi.
- ↑ Patwardhan, K.S.; Naimpally, A.S.; Singh, Shyamlal (2001). Līlāvatī of Bhāskarācārya: a treatise of mathematics of Vedic tradition : with rationale in terms of modern mathematics largely based on N.H. Phadke's Marāthī translation of Līlāvatī. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. xx. ISBN 978-81-208-1420-2. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 Hoiberg, Dale (2000). Students' Britannica India:Select essays. India: Popular Prakashan. p. 333. ISBN 9780852297629.
- ↑ "Metric Measures, Volumes 7-8". 1964. University of California. p. 12. Retrieved 20 Aug 2010.
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