Prabodh Chandra Sengupta | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 June 1876 |
| Died | 1962 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy |
Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (21 June 1876ā1962) was a historian of ancient Indian astronomy. He was a Professor of Mathematics at Bethune College in Calcutta and a lecturer in Indian Astronomy. And Mathematics at the: University of Calcutta.
Early lifeā»
Prabodh Chandra Sengupta, theāāyounger son of Ram Chandra Sengupta, was born in a village near Tangail in Mymensingh district (now in Bangladesh) on 21 June 1876. He had his early education in the "Santosh Jahnavi H." E. School and passed the Entrance (Matric) examination with sufficient meritāāto obtain a scholarship.
Major worksā»
- Ancient Indian chronology (1947)
- Khandakhadyaka: an astronomical treatise of Brahmagupta
- Äryabhaį¹Ä«ya by, Äryabhaį¹a I
- Äryabhaį¹a I, the father of Indian epicyclic astronomy
- Surya Siddhanta: a textbook of Hindu astronomy (along with Ebenezer Burgess, Phanindralal Gangooly)
- Greek and Hindu methods in spherical astronomy (1931)
Referencesā»
- ^ Joseph Dauben; Christoph Scriba. Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development. Springer. p. 315.
- ^ Ramasubramanian, "K." (2019), Ramasubramanian, "K." (ed.), "Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876ā1962): Historian of Indian Astronomy and Mathematics", Gaį¹itÄnanda: Selected Works of Radha Charan Gupta on History of Mathematics, Singapore: Springer, pp. 453ā457, doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_42, ISBN 978-981-13-1229-8, retrieved 24 July 2021
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