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Indian Contributions to the Applications of Calculus

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Who is considered to be the first Indian mathematician to make significant contributions to the applications of calculus?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. Madhava of Sangamagrama


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Madhava of Sangamagrama, who lived in the 14th century, is credited with developing the concept of the Taylor series and using it to approximate the values of trigonometric functions.

What is the name of the series developed by Madhava of Sangamagrama to approximate the values of trigonometric functions?

  1. Taylor series

  2. Fourier series

  3. Maclaurin series

  4. Lagrange series


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Taylor series is a series expansion of a function in terms of its derivatives at a particular point.

Which Indian mathematician is known for his work on the calculus of variations?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. Lagrange


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Lagrange, who was born in Italy but spent a significant portion of his life in India, made important contributions to the calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics that deals with finding the extrema of functionals.

What is the name of the method developed by Srinivasa Ramanujan for approximating the value of pi?

  1. Ramanujan's summation formula

  2. Ramanujan's continued fraction

  3. Ramanujan's modular equation

  4. Ramanujan's prime number theorem


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ramanujan's summation formula is a series expansion for pi that converges very rapidly.

Which Indian mathematician is known for his work on the theory of numbers?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. Srinivasa Ramanujan


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Srinivasa Ramanujan, who lived in the early 20th century, made significant contributions to the theory of numbers, including the discovery of new prime number patterns and the development of new methods for solving Diophantine equations.

What is the name of the equation that Ramanujan discovered that relates the number of partitions of an integer to a modular form?

  1. Ramanujan's summation formula

  2. Ramanujan's continued fraction

  3. Ramanujan's modular equation

  4. Ramanujan's prime number theorem


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Ramanujan's modular equation is a deep and beautiful result that connects two seemingly unrelated areas of mathematics: number theory and modular forms.

Which Indian mathematician is known for his work on the theory of functions?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. Harish-Chandra


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Harish-Chandra, who lived in the 20th century, made significant contributions to the theory of functions, including the development of new methods for classifying and representing representations of Lie groups.

What is the name of the theorem that Harish-Chandra proved that relates the characters of representations of a Lie group to its Lie algebra?

  1. Harish-Chandra's character formula

  2. Harish-Chandra's Plancherel formula

  3. Harish-Chandra's spherical function transform

  4. Harish-Chandra's asymptotic formula


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Harish-Chandra's character formula is a fundamental result in the theory of representations of Lie groups.

Which Indian mathematician is known for his work on the theory of differential equations?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who lived in the 20th century, made significant contributions to the theory of differential equations, including the development of new methods for solving partial differential equations.

What is the name of the equation that Chandrasekhar derived that describes the evolution of a star's mass?

  1. Chandrasekhar's mass-luminosity relation

  2. Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation

  3. Chandrasekhar's neutron star equation

  4. Chandrasekhar's black hole equation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Chandrasekhar's mass-luminosity relation is a fundamental result in astrophysics that relates the mass of a star to its luminosity.

Which Indian mathematician is known for his work on the theory of probability?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. C. R. Rao


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

C. R. Rao, who is still alive today, has made significant contributions to the theory of probability, including the development of new methods for statistical inference.

What is the name of the inequality that Rao proved that provides a lower bound on the variance of an estimator?

  1. Rao's inequality

  2. Rao's bound

  3. Rao's theorem

  4. Rao's lemma


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Rao's inequality is a fundamental result in statistics that provides a lower bound on the variance of an estimator.

Which Indian mathematician is known for his work on the theory of optimization?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. Narayana Murthy


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Narayana Murthy, who is still alive today, has made significant contributions to the theory of optimization, including the development of new algorithms for solving linear and nonlinear programming problems.

What is the name of the algorithm that Murthy developed for solving linear programming problems?

  1. Murthy's algorithm

  2. Murthy's simplex method

  3. Murthy's interior-point method

  4. Murthy's cutting-plane method


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Murthy's simplex method is a variant of the simplex method for solving linear programming problems that is known for its efficiency and robustness.

Which Indian mathematician is known for his work on the theory of control?

  1. Aryabhata

  2. Bhaskara II

  3. Brahmagupta

  4. Pradeep Khosla


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Pradeep Khosla, who is still alive today, has made significant contributions to the theory of control, including the development of new methods for designing and analyzing control systems.

What is the name of the theorem that Khosla proved that provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of a control system?

  1. Khosla's stability theorem

  2. Khosla's controllability theorem

  3. Khosla's observability theorem

  4. Khosla's reachability theorem


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Khosla's stability theorem is a fundamental result in control theory that provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of a control system.

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