# Brahmagupta

- id: brahmagupta
- name in original script: ब्रह्मगुप्त
- dates: c. 598–668
- roles: author

Astronomer and mathematician of Bhillamala in western India. His Brahmasphutasiddhanta of 628 treats zero as a number with rules of its own, and his school's astronomy reached Baghdad within 150 years.

## Works in the atlas

- Brahmasphutasiddhanta (brahmasphutasiddhanta)

## Sources

- Pingree, David (1970). The Fragments of the Works of al-Fazari.