Sudhakara Dvivedi Explained

Sudhakara Dvivedi (1855-1910) was an Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics.

Biography

Sudhakara Dvivedi 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 1898 he was appointed the teacher of mathematics and astronomy after Bapudeva Sastri retired in 1889.^[1]

He was the head of mathematics department in Queen's college Benaras from where he retired in 1905 and mathematician Ganesh Prasad became the new head of department.^[2] Dvivedi wrote a number of translations, commentaries and treatises, including one on algebra which included topics such as Pellian equations, squares, and Diophantine equations.^[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, (Web site: Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta. 1902. 25 Aug 2015.)
• Aryabhata II's Maha-Siddhanta (1910)

Works in Hindi

• Differential Calculus (1886)
• Integral Calculus (1895)
• Theory of equations (1897)
• A History of Hindu mathematics I (1910)

External links

• Yajusha Jyauti-sham

Notes and References

1. Book: Joseph W. Dauben. Christoph J. Scriba. Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. 23 September 2002. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-3-7643-6167-9. 312–313.
2. Book: Prasad, Ganesh. Some great mathematicians of the nineteenth century. Krishna Prakashan Media. xi.
3. Book: Patwardhan. K.S.. Naimpally. A.S.. Singh. Shyamlal. 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. 27 September 2011. 2001. Motilal Banarsidass. 978-81-208-1420-2. xx.
4. Book: Hoiberg, Dale. Students' Britannica India:Select essays. 2000. Popular Prakashan. India. 9780852297629. 333.
5. Web site: Metric Measures, Volumes 7-8. 12. 1964. 1964. University of California. 20 Aug 2010.