In a time and place where people believed certain distant stars, called "asuras," possessed malevolent powers capable of inflicting harm on Earth, Aryabhata the Elder took the first steps towards separating scientific explication from folklore and...

476-550 Indian Mathematician and Astronomer His Aryabhatiya assumed a level of significance among Indian mathematicians comparable to that of Euclid's Elements in the West, but as was typical of many Hindu thinkers, Aryabhata considered...

476-550 Indian astronomer and mathematician whose Aryabhatiya helped usher in a period of increased scientific curiosity in his country. Aryabhata suggested that the reason the stars and planets seem to move around Earth is that Earth is in fact...

Āryabhaṭa (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (b. 476 AD – 550) is the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are the Aryabhatiya (499) and...