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Correct . SAGARMATHA GIRISRINGA and not Mount Everest etc. // Everest did not even do the great survey work that established the altitude -it was done by an #Indian called RADHANATH SIKDAR ( why not Mount RADHANATH if we are to go by Everest ?? ). @IndiGenBharat ; @cbkwgl.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanath… .....#Indian and a #BengaliHindu // A supremely talented surveyor who rendered great service to #Bharatvarsh // unknown to most people.
Wiki : " In 1851 a Survey Manual (eds. Capt. H. L. Thullier and Capt. F. Smyth) was published by the Survey Department. The preface to the Manual mentions that the more technical and mathematical chapters of the Manual were written by Babu Radhanath Sikdar."
#MountEverest has been scaled by many mountaineers but no body knew accurately the height of the highest peak, in the past - but it was calculated accurately by one #Bengali genius #Mathematician . Read the thread to know the fascinating details 
In 1831, surveyor-general of India George #Everest was looking for a mathematician who had specialised in spherical #trigonometry to join the #GreatTrigonometricSurvey
#RadhanathSikdar, a student and a master in spherical trigonometry from Kolkata’s Hindu College (now #PresidencyUniversity) was handpicked for the #survey department of the #British government in the 1830s
