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Aryabhata
Astronomer
Specialty	Astronomy, mathematics
Born	476 CE prob. Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on mathematics and astronomy, some of which are lost. Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on mathematics and astronomy, some of which are lost. Aryabhata was a famous Indian mathematician and astronomer born in CE in Patliputra, Bihar. Aryabhata was born in Taregna (literally, song of the stars), which is a small town in Bihar, India, about 30 km (19 mi) from Patna (then known as Pataliputra). Early modern mathematicians reached an accuracy of 35 digits by the beginning of the 17th century (Ludolph van Ceulen), and digits by the 19th century . Aryabhata I (– CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. Ashmaka
Died	550 CE
Nationality	Indian

Aryabhata was one of the great mathematicians and astronomers from the classical era in India. In fact, he is considered to be the first great mathematician in a long line of visionary mathematicians who would emerge from India from the classical era onward.

His published works were many years ahead of their time and a significant amount of modern mathematics and astronomy can be traced back to the studies and works associated with him.

Early Life and Education

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Aryabhata was born around 475 A.D.

in the region known as Ashmaka. Historians cannot be completely sure when he was born, but one of his works notes it was written around 3,600 years into the Kali Yuga, so a rough estimation about the time in which he was born can be ascertained.

It is really not even known were for sure he was born as Ashmaka. It might be considered a nickname of sort