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This great teacher’s life of 21 years received laudable repute

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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio lived little more than 21 years and in this short span he made his mark as a great teacher. Derozio (1809–1831) started the Young Bengal Movement in the first half of the 19th century with a group of courageous young men of Bengal, which included among others Radhanath Sikdar, the man …

The mathematician who calculated the height of Mount Everest

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Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870) was an Indian mathematician who among many other things calculated the height of Peak XV in the Himalaya and showed it to be the tallest mountain above sea level. Peak XV was later named Mount Everest.

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