Bibhutibhushan Datta
Bibhutibhushan Datta (also Bibhuti Bhusan Datta; Bengali : বিভূতিভূষণ দত্ত, Bibhūtibhūṣaṇ Datta) (28 June 1888 – 6 October 1958) was a historian of Indian mathematics.[1]
Datta came from a poor Bengali family. He was a student of
sannyasin
(an ascetic, a person who has renounced worldly pleasures) in 1938 under the name Swami Vidyaranya.
History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book,[2] written by him jointly with Avadhesh Narayan Singh (1901–1954) became a standard reference in the history of Indian mathematics.[3][4] He also wrote a monograph on the Shulba Sutras.[5] He published more than 70 research papers mostly related to the history of Indian mathematics.[6]
In the last years of his life, as Swami Vidyaranya, he lived mainly at Pushkar, a Hindu holy site in Rajasthan.
See also
- History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book, Datta's magnum opus on Hindu (Indic) mathematics
External links
References
- . Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ Bibhutibhushan Datta and Awadhesh Narayan Singh (1962). History of Hindu Mathematics: a Sourcebook. Asia Publishing House.
- . Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- JSTOR 2301803.
- ^ Bibhtibhushan Datta (1932). The Science of the Sulba. A study in early Hindu geometry. University of Calcutta.
- MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
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