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Video: How a 19th century Bengali mathematician first calculated the height of Mount Everest

Name: Video: How a 19th century Bengali mathematician first calculated the height of Mount Everest
Uploaded: 2018-05-01T14:59:33.531926+05:30
Channel: Ramakrishnan M
Description: Radhanath Sikdar was a ‘human computor’ working under the British during the Great Trigonometric Survey of India.

Radhanath Sikdar was a ‘human computor’ working under the British during the Great Trigonometric Survey of India.

Ramakrishnan M

Sep 20, 2017 · 09:00 am

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