(1) He was born in Bijapur in (1114‐1185 AD) modern Karnataka.
(2) His main work “Siddhanta Shiromani” is divided into four parts called Lilawati, Bijaganit, Grahaganita and Goladhyaya. These four sections deal with arithmetic, algebra , mathematics of planets and spheres respectively. (3) He was the first to give that any number divided by zero gives infinity. (4) He has written a lot about zero, surds, permutation and combination. (5) He wrote,” The hundredth part of the circumference of a circle seems to be straight. Our earth is a big sphere and that’s why it appears to be flat.” (6) He gave the formulae like: sin (A±B) =sinAcosB ± cosA sinB. (7) He calculated derivatives of Trigonometric functions and formulae. (8) He explained solution of quadratic, cubic and quartic indeterminate equations. (9) He developed a proof of Pythagoras Theorem by calculating the same area in two different ways & these cancel out terms to get a2 + b2 = c2. (10) He gave first general method for finding the solution of the problem X2 – ny2 = 1 (so called Pell’s equation). (11) He gave solution of Diophantine equations of second order such as 61x2 + 1 = y2. SHAKUNTALA DEVI
(1) She was born o n 4 November 1929 in Mysore,
Karnataka (died on 21 April 2013). She is an Indian calculating prodigy. (2) By age 6,She demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at university of Mysore. At the age of 8, she had successes at Annamalai University by doing the same. (3) On June 18, 1980,She demonstrated the multiplication of two 13‐digit numbers picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds. This event is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of Records. (4) In Dallas, she competed with a computer to see who give the cube of 188138517 faster, she won. At University of USA she was asked to give the 23rd root of 91674867692003915809866092758538016248310668014430862240712651642793465 70408670965932792057674808067900227830163549248523803357453169351119035 9657754734007568818688305620821016129132845564895780158806771. She answered in 50 seconds. The answer is 546372891.It took a UNIVAC 1108 computer, full one minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 13000 instr uctions. **//agar wo bada sa number nahi likhna to neeche wali line likh dena//** In Dallas, she competed with a computer to see who give the cube of 188138517 faster, she won. At University of USA she was asked to give the 23rd root of a 204 digit number, she answered in 50 seconds. It took a UNIVAC 1108 computer, full one minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 13000 instructions. (5) Now she is known to be Human Computer.