1. Aryabhata's works include the Aryabhatiya and the Arya-siddhanta.
15 Facts About Aryabhata
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Aryabhata called himself a native of Kusumapura or Pataliputra.
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Aryabhata mentions "Lanka" on several occasions in the Aryabhatiya, but his "Lanka" is an abstraction, standing for a point on the equator at the same longitude as his Ujjayini.
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Aryabhata is reputed to have set up an observatory at the Sun temple in Taregana, Bihar.
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Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on mathematics and astronomy, though Aryabhatiya is the only one which survives.
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Direct details of Aryabhata's work are known only from the Aryabhatiya.
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In Ganitapada 6, Aryabhata gives the area of a triangle as.
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Aryabhata discussed the concept of sine in his work by the name of ardha-jya, which literally means "half-chord".
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Aryabhata correctly insisted that the Earth rotates about its axis daily, and that the apparent movement of the stars is a relative motion caused by the rotation of the Earth, contrary to the then-prevailing view, that the sky rotated.
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Aryabhata described a geocentric model of the Solar System, in which the Sun and Moon are each carried by epicycles.
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Later Indian astronomers improved on the calculations, but Aryabhata's methods provided the core.
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Aryabhata's model gave corrections for the speeds of the planets in the sky in terms of the mean speed of the Sun.
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The general consensus is that a synodic anomaly does not imply a physically heliocentric orbit, and that Aryabhata's system was not explicitly heliocentric.
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Aryabhata's work was of great influence in the Indian astronomical tradition and influenced several neighbouring cultures through translations.
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Some of his results are cited by Al-Khwarizmi and in the 10th century Al-Biruni stated that Aryabhata's followers believed that the Earth rotated on its axis.