Prabodh Chandra Sengupta: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox scientist|birth_date= 21 June 1876|death_date=1962|fields=[[astronomy]]

'''Prabodh Chandra Sengupta''' (21 June 1876–1962)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joseph Dauben|author-link1=Joseph Dauben|author2=Christoph Scriba|author-link2=Christoph Scriba|title=Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development|publisher=Springer|page=315}}</ref> 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]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

 

Prabodh Chandra Sengupta, the younger 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 merit to obtain a scholarship.<ref>{{Citation|last=Ramasubramanian|first=K.|title=Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876–1962): Historian of Indian Astronomy and Mathematics|date=2019|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_42|work=Gaṇitānanda: Selected Works of Radha Charan Gupta on History of Mathematics|pages=453–457|editor-last=Ramasubramanian|editor-first=K.|place=Singapore|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_42|isbn=978-981-13-1229-8|access-date=2021-07-24}}</ref>

* Greek and Hindu methods in spherical astronomy (1931){{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}