Bibhutibhushan Datta (Bengali:বিভূতিভূষণ দত্ত,romanized: Bibhūtibhūṣaṇ Datta; alsoBibhuti Bhusan Datta; 28 June 1888 – 6 October 1958) was a historian ofIndian mathematics.[1]
Datta came from a poor Bengali family. He was a student ofGanesh Prasad, studied at theUniversity of Calcutta and secured a master's degree in mathematics in 1914 and a doctorate degree in 1920 inapplied mathematics. He taught at Calcutta University where he was a lecturer at the University Science College, and from 1924 to 1929 he was the Rhashbehari Ghosh Professor of Applied Mathematics. During the 1920s and 1930s he created a reputation as an authority on the history of Indian mathematics. He was also deeply interested inIndian philosophy and religion. In 1929 he retired from his professorship and left the university in 1933, and became asannyasin (an ascetic, a person who has renounced worldly pleasures) in 1938 under the name Swami Vidyaranya.
History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book,[2] written by him jointly withAvadhesh Narayan Singh (1901–1954) became a standard reference work in the history of Indian mathematics.[3][4] He also wrote amonograph on theShulba Sutras.[5] He published more than 70 research papers mostly related to the history of Indian mathematics.[6]
In the last years of his life, as Swami Vidyaranya, he lived mainly atPushkar, a Hindu holy site in Rajasthan.
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