Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Patliputra
The correct answer is Patliputra. - Aryabhatta was a famous Indian mathematician and astronomer, born in a place called Taregana, in Bihar.
- Taregana which literally means songs of stars in Bihari is a small place situated nearly 30 km from Patna, which was then known as Kusumpura later Pataliputra, the capital of the Gupta Empire.
- Aryabhata was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.
- His works include the Aryabhaṭiya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-Siddhanta.
- The works of Aryabhata dealt with mainly mathematics and astronomy.
- The mathematical part of the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry.
- It also contains continued fractions, quadratic equations, sums of power series, and a table of sines.
- Aryabhata did solve quadratic and indeterminate equations, and provided an extremely accurate approximation for “pi”.
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