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If you ever wondered what makes Āryabhaṭa so great, here is a sampling from Āryabhaṭīya (499 CE) written by the maestro while he was 25. Gaṇitapāda chapter with just 33 terse verses will make you wonder why aren't all Indians studying works of this genius. #AwesomeAryabhata 
Here's the mind-blowing spectrum of mathematics covered in Gaṇitapāda with just 33 verses: 1. Saṃkhyāsthāna: Place value system 2.Vargaparikarma, ghanaparikarma: Squaring and cubing. 3.Vargamūlānayana: Obtaining the square-root 4.Ghanamūlānayana: Obtaining the cube-root
5.Area of a triangle 6.Volume of an equilateral tetrahedron 7.Obtaining the area of a circle 8.Volume of a sphere. 9.Obtaining the area of a trapezium. 10.Chord of a sixth of the circumference. 11.Approximate value of the circumference showing π ≈ 3.1416
