Govindsvamin

Govindsvamin

Govindasvamin was a 9th century Indian mathematician who gave the fractional parts of the Aryabhata's tabular sines.

Govindaswamin who wrote commentary on mahabhaskariya of BHASKARA 1 belonged to Kerala in mahodayapuram. His work govindakriti was a sequel to Aryabhatiya and is lost. His works have been quoted extensively by Sankara-narayana (869 AD) and Udayadivakara (1073 AD) AND Nilakantha.

ee also

*Indian mathematicians


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