Bhaskara

Scientific  

/ bäs′kə-rə /

1. Indian mathematician who wrote the first work that showed a systematic use of the decimal system.

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Example Sentences

“This fraction of which the denominator is a cipher, is termed an infinite quantity,” writes Bhaskara, a twelfth-century Indian mathematician, who tells of what happens when you add a number to 1 + 0.

From Literature

The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.”

From Literature

What Bhaskara and others realized was that when you square a positive number, you get a positive number back; 2 times 2 equals 4, for instance.

From Literature

If air travel is out of the question, try to visit a “proxy” school near home, said Vinay Bhaskara, co-founder of CollegeVine.

From New York Times

According to Airways senior business analyst Vinay Bhaskara, most airline customers shop based on the lowest advertised fare without regard for additional fees.

From Time