Multiple choice general knowledge history

Leibniz is credited for the formula of “pi”. But which Indian mathematician derived the formula of “pi”, 200 years before Leibniz?

  1. Pingala

  2. Aryabhatta

  3. Bhaskara

  4. Madhava of Sangamagrama
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Explanation

Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1350-1425), founder of the Kerala school, discovered the infinite series for pi (pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ...) around 1400, over 200 years before Leibniz published the same formula in 1673.

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