Prabodh Chandra Sengupta
Prabodh Chandra Sengupta | |
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Born | 21 June, 1876 |
Died | 1962 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | astronomy |
Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (21 June, 1876–1962)[1] 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 life
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.[2]
Major works
- Ancient Indian chronology (1947)
- Khandakhadyaka: an astronomical treatise of Brahmagupta
- Āryabhaṭīya by Āryabhaṭa I
- Āryabhaṭa 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)
References
- ↑ Joseph Dauben; Christoph Scriba. Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development. Springer. p. 315.
- ↑ "Prabodh Chandra Sengupta(1876-1962)".
External links
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- 1962 deaths
- Historians of mathematics
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- 20th-century Indian mathematicians
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