Bhaskara
[bäs′kə-rə]1114-1185?
Indian mathematician who wrote the first work that showed a systematic use of the decimal system.
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The Hindus knew the proposition long before Bhaskara, however, and possibly before Pythagoras.
The Teaching of GeometryDavid Eugene Smith
The charter was given in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of the donor Bhaskara Ravi Varma.
Castes and Tribes of Southern IndiaEdgar Thurston