This document summarizes the academic career and contributions of Professor R.C. Gupta, a historian of mathematics in India. It notes that he was a founder and longtime leader of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics, publishing their bulletin for over 25 years. Professor Gupta has authored hundreds of papers covering almost all aspects of ancient and pre-colonial Indian mathematics and has had profound impact on the study of the history of Indian mathematics. This website makes some of Professor Gupta's papers available online.

1. Some papers of Professor R.C. Gupta
Professor Radha Charan Gupta, a veteran historian of mathematics, has been
associated with the Indian Society for History of Mathematics (ISHM) from its
inception in 1978; he is a founder member of the Society and is now a Vice
President of its Council, for over a decade. He took charge, at the founding
of the Society, of bringing out the bulletin of the Society, Ganita Bharati, and
fostered it as Editor for over a quarter century, until 2005.
Professor Gupta has been a prolific researcher and expositor, with profound
impact on the study of the history of Indian mathematics. His bibliography runs
into hundreds of titles, and the topics involved cover almost all aspects of Indian
mathematics from the ancient to the pre-colonial times. For more details on the
life and work of Prof. Gupta we refer the reader to the articles noted below.
It is our pleasure to make accessible to the readers some of the papers of
Professor Gupta through this website. It is proposed to add more papers to the
collection in future.
We are thankful to Prof. Gupta for granting us this privilege, and to Prof.
Takao Hayashi for making available digitized versions of the papers being posted.
Articles on Professor R.C. Gupta:
1. Takao Hayashi, A bibliography (1958-1995) of Radha Charan Gupta, his-
torian of Indian mathematics, Historia Scientiarum (2) 6 (1996), 43-53.
2. Kim Plofker, Professor R.C. Gupta receives the Kenneth O. May Prize,
Ganita Bharati 31 (2009), 109-114.
3. Christoph J. Scriba, A birthday tribute to R. C. Gupta, Historia Mathe-
matica 23 (1996), 117-120.