Student Education Repository (மாணவர்கள் கல்விக் களஞ்சியம்): Today (May 17, 1870) is the Memorial day of Bangladesh mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, who first predicted the height of Everest.

Monday, May 17, 2021

Today (May 17, 1870) is the Memorial day of Bangladesh mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, who first predicted the height of Everest.

Today (May 17, 1870) is the Memorial day of Bangladesh mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, who first predicted the height of Everest.

Radhanath Sikdar was born in October 1813. Bengal mathematician who lived in the 19th century. He was educated at the Old Hindu College, now known as Presidency College, Kolkata. She launched the magazine Masik Pathrika to educate and empower the women of Bengal. In 1840 he joined the giant triangular land surveying program. The height of Everest (Kodumudi-15) was first predicted in 1852 to be 8,848 meters. Everest was later accepted by other researchers around the world as the largest in the world.

How to measure a mountain - Times of India

In 1831, George Everest was searching for a good young mathematician with special skills in spherical trigonometry. Tyler Tytler found their student Radhanath Sikdar. Radhanath was 19 when he joined the Great Trigonometry Survey in December 1831. His monthly salary was Indian Rupees 30. The team sent him to Siroji, near Dehradun, knowing his geo-caliber. His approach was a new kind of approach that incorporated his own scientific discoveries, which were different from conventional geostationary processes.

Due to his excellent performance, Mr. Everest transferred Ranath Sikthor as Deputy Collector to the GTS Division. 1843. Mr. After retiring from Everest, Radhanath Sikdar became Managing Director. Twenty years later, Radhanath Sikdar was appointed chief math officer of Calcutta. He used his inventions (for example, the 32-degree Fahrenheit alternate calculation formula) to transform what used to be a measurement of the barometer.

Under his leadership Colonel Waugh began the task of measuring snow-capped mountains near Darjeeling. According to six different surveys, today's Mount Everest was recommended by Radhanath Sikdar as the "peak of the world" and was adopted a few years later. When the snow peak was named, the local name was preferred. But Colonel Waugh made an exception. His former chief of staff Mr. It should be named in honor of Everest, said Radhanath Sikdar. Because of this the work and labor of Radhanath Sikdar are not recognized.

Aradanath Sikdar, who first predicted the height of Everest, left the world on May 17, 1870, in his 57th year. On April 10, 1802, the Indian Postal Company issued a special postal mail in Chennai on June 27, 2004, in honor of the massive triangular land survey program. This included the film of Radhanath Sikdar and Nain Singh (who also contributed to the survey of the land).

Source By: Wikipedia

Information: Ramesh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.