Sudhakara Dvivedi

Sudhakara Dvivedi (1855-1910) was an Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics.

Biography

Sudhakara Dvivedi was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near Varanasi. In childhood he studied mathematics under Pandit Devakrsna.

In 1883 he was appointed a librarian in the Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi where in 1898 he was appointed the teacher of mathematics and astronomy after Bapudeva Sastri retired in 1889.^[1]

He was the head of mathematics department in Queen's college Benaras from where he retired in 1905 and mathematician Ganesh Prasad became the new head of department.^[2] Dvivedi wrote a number of translations, commentaries and treatises, including one on algebra which included topics such as Pellian equations, squares, and Diophantine equations.^[3]

Works in Sanskrit

• Chalan Kalan
• Deergha Vritta Lakshan ("Characteristics of Ellipse")
• Goleeya Rekha Ganit ("Sphere Line Mathematics")
• Samikaran Meemansa ("Analysis of Equations")
• Yajusha Jyauti-sham and Archa Jyauti-sham
• Ganakatarangini (1892)^[4]
• Euclid's Elements 6th, 11th and 12th parts
• Lilavati (1879)
• Bijaganita (1889)
• Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira (1889): Co-edited with George Thibaut^[5]
• Surya Siddhanta
• Brahmagupta’s Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, 1902, ("Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta" (PDF). 1902. Retrieved 25 August 2015.)
• Aryabhata II's Maha-Siddhanta (1910)

Works in Hindi

• Differential Calculus (1886)^[4]
• Integral Calculus (1895)^[4]
• Theory of equations (1897)^[4]
• A History of Hindu mathematics I (1910)