Assignment 3: History of Brahmagupta

 

For our project, Margot and I made a painting/drawing to convey Brahmagumpta's achievements and contributions to mathematics and science. Something we found particularly interesting was that Brahmagupta has made significant contributions to both astronomy and mathematics, therefore we wanted to creatively portray this in our chosen artwork. Thus, we decided to draw a portrait of Brahmagupta, and depict the background as the galaxy with stars and planets around it to incorporate his achievements related to astronomy. While we plan to briefly touch on this in our presentation, we find it fascinating that he contributed findings about the solar/lunar eclipse, the longitudes of the planets, and the conjunctions of the planets with each other as well as with fixed stars. The focus of our presentation will be on Brahmagupta's contributions to mathematics, and we will be highlighting the general linear equation, the general quadratic equation, the concept of the number zero, and his estimate of the length of the year (our fun fact about his astronomy work!). While Brahmagupta has made other significant contributions to mathematics, we will be focusing on the stated concepts for the purpose of our presentation, which is why we chose to only put those on our drawing. Here is a link to our prepared slides to view all of our content for our presentation!

link:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qZt8XmiocP6gPTl9JIvMU40ckoujaadoECoVCsESiRE/edit?usp=sharing