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Aryabhata

Acharya — mathematician and astronomer

What they did

Gave a sine table, a value of pi accurate to four decimal places, and the kuttaka method for indeterminate equations.

The text

Aryabhatiya · Ganitapada 2.1–2.5
Commentary: Bhashya of Bhaskara I

When

499 CE · exact · established
The Aryabhatiya states its own year of composition

Where

Kusumapura — today Pataliputra / Patna, Bihar (probable)

Where it maps in modern education

Mathematics · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB · State — Ganita — Pati-ganita (arithmetic), Bija-ganita (algebra), Kshetra-ganita (geometry). Place value and zero, fractions, ratio and proportion, series, quadratic and indeterminate equations, areas and volumes, similar figures.

Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.