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Who was Aryabhata?

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Aryabhata was a after whom India’s first scientific satellite has been named, was a great Indian astronomer and mathematician. Among his important contributions are the recognition of the importance of the movement of the earth round the sun, determination of the physical parameters of various celestial bodies, such as diameter of the earth and the moon. He laid the doundation of algebra and was responsible for pointing out the importance of ‘zero’.

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