Prabodh Chandra Sengupta

Prabodh Chandra Sengupta
Prabodh Chandra Sengupta
Born	21 June 1876
Died	1962
	Scientific career
Fields	astronomy

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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.^{[citation needed]}

Early life[edit]

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[edit]

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)^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

↑ Joseph Dauben; Christoph Scriba. Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development. Springer. p. 315.
↑ Ramasubramanian, K. (2019), Ramasubramanian, K. (ed.), "Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876–1962): Historian of Indian Astronomy and Mathematics", Gaṇitānanda: Selected Works of Radha Charan Gupta on History of Mathematics, Singapore: Springer, pp. 453–457, doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_42, ISBN 978-981-13-1229-8, retrieved 24 July 2021

External links[edit]

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[1] Joseph Dauben; Christoph Scriba. Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development. Springer. p. 315.

[2] Ramasubramanian, K. (2019), Ramasubramanian, K. (ed.), "Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876–1962): Historian of Indian Astronomy and Mathematics", Gaṇitānanda: Selected Works of Radha Charan Gupta on History of Mathematics, Singapore: Springer, pp. 453–457, doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_42, ISBN 978-981-13-1229-8, retrieved 24 July 2021

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