Sudhakar Dwivedi

Sudhakara Dvivedi (* 1855 in Khajuri in Varanasi, † 1910) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, mathematician and historian of mathematics.

He studied with the scholars Devakrsna and 1883 Librarian at Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi. In 1890 he was a teacher there (Professor) of Mathematics and Astrology in place of Bapu Deva Sastri. Later he was a professor and head of the mathematics department at Queen 's College, Benares ( Varasani ). In 1905 he went into retirement. His successor was educated in Allahabad, Cambridge and Göttingen Ganesh Prasad (1876-1935), before he became a professor at the University of Calcutta.

Dvivedi was with Bapu Deva Sastri one of the greatest mathematicians in India in the 19th century. Deva Shastri published 1861 Wilkinson translations of the Sanskrit astronomical texts Surya Siddhanta ( also part of Pancasiddhantika ) and Siddhanta Siromani (of Bhaskara II ).

As a mathematician, he dealt among other things with Number Theory ( Diophantine equations). He wrote English textbooks on calculus and algebra books on properties of elliptical and spherical trigonometry and issued a Sanskrit edition of Euclid's Elements.

He published several Sanskrit books on mathematics and astronomy classical Indian mathematician Bhaskara II as of ( Lilavati 1879, Bijaganita 1889, Siddhantasiromani ), Brahmagupta ( Brahmasphutasiddhanta, The Pandit 1902), Aryabhata II ( Maha - Siddhanta, Benares Sanskrit Studies 1910), Kamalakara. By George Thibaut he gave in 1889 the astronomical collection Pancasiddhantika of Varahamihira out.

1910 appeared in his History of Benares Hindu Mathematics. Previously, he published in 1892 a book about traditional astronomers and mathematicians in India Ganakatarangini.