List of Indian mathematicians
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The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus valley civilization and the Vedas to Modern times.
Indian mathematicians have made outstanding contributions to the development of mathematics as we know it today. The Indian decimal notation of numbers, concept of zero have probably provided some of the biggest impetus' to advances in the field. Concepts from India were carried to the Middle East, where they studied extensively. From there they made their way to Europe.
Unfortunately, some concepts of Indian origin have not been given due acknowledgement in modern history, with some discoveries/inventions by Indian mathematicians now attributed to their western counterparts. Some historians have [argued] that much of modern mathematics was originally developed by Indian mathematicians. This remains an open question, and much more research still needs to be done.
BC
- Yajnavalkya, 1800 BC, the author of the altar mathematics of the Shatapatha Brahmana.
- Lagadha - Author of a 1350 BC text on Vedic astronomy
- Baudhayana, 800 BC
- Manava, 750 BC
- Apastamba, 700 BC
- Aksapada Gautama, 550 BC, Logician
- Panini, 500 BC, Algebraic grammarian
- Katyayana, 400 BC
- Pingala, 5th century BC
AD 1-1000
- Aryabhata - Astronomer who gave very accurate calculations for astronomical constants, 500
- Varahamihira
- Bhaskara I, 620
- Brahmagupta - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic,
- Virahanka (8th century) - Gave explicit rules for the Fibonacci series.
- Shridhara (between 650-850) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.
- Lalla, 720-790
- Govindsvamin (9th century)
- Virasena
- Mahavira (9th century)
- Jayadeva (9th century)
- Prithudaka, 9th century
- Halayudha, 10th century
- Aryabhata II, 920-1000
- Vateshvara (10th century)
1000-1800
- Brahmadeva, 1060-1130
- Sripati, 1019-1066
- Gopala - Studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
- Hemachandra - Also studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
- Bhaskara II - Conceived of Differential Calculus
- Gangesha Upadhyaya, 13th century, Logician, Mithila school
- Pakshadhara, sone of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
- Shankara Mishra, Logician, Mithila school
- Narayana Pandit
- Madhava - Considered the father of mathematical analysis, Founded some concepts of Calculus
- Parameshvara (1360-1455), discovered drk-ganita, a mathematical model of astronomy based on observations, Madhava's Kerala school
- Nilakantha Somayaji,1444-1545 - Mathematician and Astronomer, Madhava's Kerala school
- Mahendra Suri (14th century)
- Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
- Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, 1450-1525, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Raghunatha Shiromani, (1475-1550), Logician, Navadvipa school
- Jyeshtadeva , 1500-1610, Author of Yuktibhasa, the world's first calculus text, Madhava's Kerala school
- Achyuta Pisharati, 1550-1621, Astronomer/mathematician, Madhava's Kerala school
- Mathuranatha Tarkavagisha, c. 1575, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Jagadisha Tarkalankara, c. 1625, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Gadadhara Bhattacharya, c. 1650, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Munishvara (17th century)
- Kamalakara (1657)
- Jagannatha Samrat (1730)
Born in 1800s
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892-1953)
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974)
- Sanjeev Shah (1803- 1896)
Born in 1900s
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
- D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
- Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
- C.Radhakrishna Rao
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-)
- Shakuntala Devi (1939-)
- Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945-1976)
- Narendra Karmarkar (1957-)
- M.V. Subbarao (1921-2006)
- Dr Vashishtha Narayan Singh
- Divakar Viswanath
- Dhananjay P. Mehendale
- Bhama Srinivasan (1935-)
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