BASKARACHARYA INTRODUCTION Bhaskaracharya is the most well known ancient indian mathematician. He was born on 114 A.D.At Bijjada bida in the sahyadari hill. His father mahesvara himself was a famous astrologer. In many ways baskara represents the peak of mathematical knowledge of 12th century. He was the head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain. HIS CONTRIBUTIONS He was the first to declare that any number divided by zero is infinity and that the sum of any number and infinity is infinity. 2. He was notable for his treatment of negative numbers which he considered as debts or losses and also for his treatise on arithmetic and measurement. 3. Baskara also handled efficiently arithmetic involving negative numbers. 4.Baskara was also concerned with series, permutations,linear,and quadratic equations,mensuration and astronomy. 5. He also gave a method for deriving sines for angles of every degree. 6. He found formula for finding the area and volume of sphe...