Bhaskara II, also known as Bhaskaracharya or Bhaskara the Teacher, was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who extended Brahmagupta's work on number systems. He was born in Vijayapura in 1114 and died in Ujjain in 1185, and his father Mahesvara was himself famed as an astrologer. He became head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain, the leading mathematical centre in India at that time, where Varahamihira and Brahmagupta had worked before him. His name is tied to the history of zero and division by zero and to the treatise Līlāvatī.
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Bhaskara II or Bhaskaracharya was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who extended Brahmagupta's work on number systems.
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Bhaskara II or Bhaskaracharya was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who extended Brahmagupta's work on number systems.
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Bhāskara II's 12th century treatise Līlāvatī instead proposed that division by zero results in an infinite quantity
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