Multiple choice general knowledge

Pi as a irrational number. Heliocentricism and trignometry.

  1. Vikram Sarabhai

  2. Arya Bhatta

  3. Srinivas Ramanujam

  4. CV Raman
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Explanation

Aryabhata (476-550 CE) was the pioneering Indian mathematician-astronomer who worked on the value of pi as an irrational number, proposed heliocentrism (earth rotates on its axis and revolves around sun), and developed trigonometric functions. The other scientists listed came much later.

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