List of Indian mathematicians

List of Indian mathematicians

The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus valley civilization and the Vedas to Modern times.

Indian mathematicians have made a number of significant contributions to mathematics including place-value arithmetical notation and the concept of zero.

Vedic

*Apastamba
*Baudhayana
*Katyayana
*Manava
*Panini, ca. 5th c. BC, Algebraic grammarian
*Yajnavalkya, credited with authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana, which contains calculations related to altar construction.

Classical

Post-Vedic Sanskrit to Pala period mathematicians (5th c. BC to 11th c. AD)
*Aryabhata - Astronomer who gave accurate calculations for astronomical constants, 476-520
*Aryabhata II
*Bhaskara I
*Bhaskara II
*Brahmagupta - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic
*Mahavira
*Matanga Muni - Combinatorics in music
*Varahamihira

*Shridhara (between 650-850) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.

Medieval to Mughal period

13th century to 1800.
*Gangesha Upadhyaya, 13th century, Logician, mithila school
*Pakshadhara, son of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
*Shankara Mishra, Logician, Mithila school
*Narayana Pandit
*Madhava of Sangamagrama - Discovered some elements 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, 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)
*Raghunath Purushottam Paranjape

Born in 1900s

*Vijay Manohar (1901-1987)
*S. N. Roy (1906-1966)
*Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995)
*Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
*D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri
*Harish-Chandra (1920-1983)
*Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (1920-)
*Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-)
*Ramdas Lotu Bhirud(1937-1997)
*Jayant Narlikar (1930-)
*Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945-1976)
*Narendra Karmarkar (1957-)
*Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921-2006)
*Navin M. Singhi
*S. S. Shrikhande
*Raj Chandra Bose
*Parthasarathy, K. R.
*Ramenjit Singh
*Gaurav Agrawal


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