Indian historian of mathematics (born 1935)
Radha Charan Gupta (born 1935 in Gursarai, Jhansi , in present-day Uttar Pradesh ) is an Indian historian of mathematics.
Early life of Radha Charan Gupta
Gupta graduated from the University of Lucknow , where he completed 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.[1] He did his dissertation work at Ranchi University with the historian of Indian mathematics T.A. Sarasvati Amma . Then he served as a lecturer at Lucknow Christian College (from 1957 to 1958). In 1958 he joined Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra . In 1982 he was awarded a full professorship. He retired in 1995 as the Emeritus Professor of the history of mathematics and logic .[1] He became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in February 1995.[2]
Works
In 1969 Gupta addressed[3] interpolation in Indian mathematics . He wrote on Govindasvamin and his interpolation of sine tables . Furthermore, he contributed an article on the work of Paramesvara : "Paramesvara's rule for the circumradius of a cyclic quadrilateral ".[4]
In 2019, a collection of Gupta's papers was published as a book:
Gupta, Radha Charan (2019). Ramasubramanian, K. (ed.). Gaṇitānanda: Selected Works of Radha Charan Gupta on History of Mathematics . Springer. doi :10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8 .
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.[1] In 1979 he founded the magazine Ganita Bharati .[5]
In 2009 he was awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize alongside the British mathematician Ivor Grattan-Guinness .[6] [7] [8] He is notably the first Indian to get this prize.[9]
In 2023, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contributions in the field of literature and education.[10]
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