Radha Charan Gupta

Radha Charan Gupta
Born	1935 Jhansi
Nationality	Indian
Fields	History of mathematics
Institutions	Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Alma mater	University of Lucknow, Ranchi University
Doctoral advisor	T.A. Sarasvati Amma
Notable awards	Kenneth O. May Prize (2009)

Radha Charan Gupta (born 1935 in Jhansi, in present-day Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian historian of mathematics.

Life

Gupta graduated from the University of Lucknow, where he made his bachelor's degree in 1955 and his master's degree in 1957. He earned his Ph.D. in the history of mathematics from Ranchi University in 1971. He did his dissertation work at Ranchi University with the historian of Indian mathematics T.A. Sarasvati Amma. Then he served as a lecturer at Lucknow Christian College (from 1957 to 1958) and in 1958 he joined Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. In 1982 he was awarded a full professorship. He retired in 1995 as the Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic. He became a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of the History of Science in February 1995.

Works

Gupta addressed since the late 1960s with the history of mathematics, especially the development of Indian trigonometry. Among them his works on Paramesvara and his approximation of the sine function and Govindasvamin and his interpolation of sine tables are notably significant.

Notable awards

In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and in 1994 he became President of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of India. In 1979 he founded the magazine Ganita Bharati. In 2009 he was awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize alongside the British mathematician Ivor Grattan-Guinness. He is the notably the first Indian to get this prize.