BHASKARACHARYA............

BHASKARACHARYA......

Bhāskarāchārya ("Bhāskara the teacher") and as Bhāskara II to avoid confusion with Bhāskara(also known as Bhāskarāchārya ("Bhāskara the teacher") and as Bhāskara II to avoid confusion with  I) (1114–1185), was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born near Vijjadavida (Bijapur in modern Karnataka). Bhāskara is said to have been the head of an astronomical observatory at Ujjain, the leading mathematical center of ancient India. He lived in the Sahyadri region (Patnadevi, Jalgaon, Maharashtra).And was the first Indian mathematician to use zero in its current form and also gave zero its current symbol as his sign, Bhaskara in hindi means sun and is round.

 He is particularly known in the discovery of the principles of differential calculus and its application to astronomical problems and computations. While Newton and Leibniz have been credited with differential and integral calculus, there is strong evidence to suggest that  was a pioneer in some of the principles of differential calculus.He was perhaps the first to                                                             conceive the differential coefficient and differential calculus................                                                             

                                                       ^{akshay krishnan}