Multiple choice general knowledge

He is mathematician and astronomer of the 12th century. His name is associated with India's third satellite. He is

  1. Aryabhatta

  2. Bhaskara I

  3. Bhaskara II

  4. None of the above
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Explanation

India's third satellite, launched in 1979, was named Bhaskara-II after the 12th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer Bhaskara II (also known as Bhaskaracharya). Aryabhatta was the name of India's first satellite, not the mathematician associated with the third one. Bhaskara I was an earlier 7th-century mathematician.

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