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Bapudeva Sastri orNarasimha Deva Paranjpe (1821–1900) was an Indian mathematician.
He was born on 1 November 1821, to aHinduBrahmin family ofMaharashtra.[2] He received his early education inarithmetic andalgebra at the Marathi school inNagpur. He also studied theLilāvati andBijaganita underDhundiraja Misra.Noting his talent, the British political agentLancelot Wilkinson secured his admission to the Sehore Sanskrit school where he studiedSiddhānta Shiromani, Euclidean Geometry and European science in general under Pandit Sevarama and Wilkinson himself. In 1842 Sastri went toGovernment Sanskrit College, Varanasi, where he taught rekha-ganita (Euclidean Geometry). In 1890Sudhakar Dwivedi was appointed the teacher ofmathematics andastrology after Bapudeva Sastri, retired in 1889.[3]
Bapudeva Sastri translated theSiddhānta Shiromani (a treatise on Hindu mathematics written in the twelfth century byBhaskaracharya) and published it inBenares in 1891. With Lancelot Wilkinson, Sastri wrote commentary onTheSurya Siddhanta (a treatise on Hindu astronomy).
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