Radha Charan Gupta
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Radha Charan Gupta is an Indian historian of mathematics.
, author of Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India, .Then he was a lecturer at Lucknow Christian College (from 1957 to 1958) and in 1958 he joined Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, Ranchi . In 1982 he was awarded a full professorship. He retired in 1995 as the Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic. He became a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of History of Science in February 1995.
the British mathematician Ivor Grattan-Guinness
. He is the notably the first Indian to get this prize.
Life
Gupta graduated from the University of Lucknow, where he made his bachelor's degree in 1955 and his master's degree in 1957. He earned his Ph.D. in the history of mathematics from Ranchi University in 1971. He did his dissertation work at Ranchi with the renowned historian of Indian mathematics T.A. Sarasvati AmmaT.A. Sarasvati Amma
T.A. Sarasvati Amma was a scholar born in Kerala, India who specialized in the geometry of ancient and medieval India....
, author of Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India, .Then he was a lecturer at Lucknow Christian College (from 1957 to 1958) and in 1958 he joined Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, Ranchi . In 1982 he was awarded a full professorship. He retired in 1995 as the Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic. He became a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of History of Science in February 1995.
Works
Gupta addressed since the late 1960s with the history of mathematics, especially the development of Indian trigonometry. Among them his works on Paramesvara and his approximation of the sine function and Govindasvamin and his interpolation of sine tables are notably significant.Notable awards
In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and in 1994 he became President of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of India, a position which he still holds. In 1979 he founded the magazine Ganita Bharati. He currently conducts his extensive and varied research and service activities under the aegis of the Ganita Bharati Institute at his retirement residence in his native city of Jhansi. In 2009 he was awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize alongsidethe British mathematician Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Ivor Grattan-Guinness, born 23 June 1941, in Bakewell, in England, is a historian of mathematics and logic.He gained his Bachelor degree as a Mathematics Scholar at Wadham College, Oxford, got an M.Sc in Mathematical Logic and the Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics in 1966...
. He is the notably the first Indian to get this prize.