List of Indian mathematicians

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

Indian mathematicians have made a number of contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era. These include place-value arithmetical notations, the ruler, the concept of zero, and most importantly, the Arabic-Hindu numerals predominantly used today and which can be used in the future also.

Contents

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• 1 Classical
• 2 Medieval to Mughal period
• 3 Born in 1800s
• 4 Born in 1900s
• 5 External links

Classical[edit]

Post-Vedic Sanskrit to Pala period mathematicians (5th century BCE to 11th century CE)

• Panini (4th century BCE)
• Pingala (post-Panini)
• Varahamihira (505 – 587 CE)
• Aryabhata – Astronomer who gave accurate calculations for astronomical constants, 476–520 CE
• Yativṛṣabha – A 6th-century mathematician and writer of the book Tiloyapannatti which gives various units for measuring distances and time and postulated different concepts about infinity.
• Brahmagupta – Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic (598–670 CE)
• Bhaskara I (600–680 CE)
• Shridhara (between 650–850) – Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere
• Mahavira (9th century CE)
• Pavuluri Mallana – the first Telugu Mathematician
• Hemachandra (1087 - 1172 CE)
• Bhaskara II (1114 – 1185 CE)

Medieval to Mughal period[edit]

13th century to 1800. 13th century, Logician, mithila school

Narayana Pandit Madhava of Sangamagrama Parameshvara (1360–1455), discovered drk-ganita, a mode of astronomy based on observations, Madhava's Kerala school Nilakantha Somayaji,1444–1545 – Mathematician and Astronomer, Madhava'sKerala school Mahendra Suri (14th century) Shankara Variyar (c. 1530) Raghunatha Siromani, (1475–1550), Logician, Navadvipa school

Jyeshtadeva, 1500–1610, Author of Yuktibhāṣā, Madhava's Kerala school Achyuta Pisharati, 1550–1621, Astronomer/mathematician, Madhava's Kerala school Munishvara (17th century) Kamalakara (1657) Jagannatha Samrat (1730)

Born in 1800s[edit]

• Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870)
• Ramchandra (1821–1880)
• Ganesh Prasad (1876–1935)
• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920)
• A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953)

Born in 1900s[edit]

• Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (1902–1955)
• Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar (1905–1986)
• Sarvadaman Chowla (1907–1995)
• Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma (1907–1998)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
• S. S. Shrikhande (born 1917)
• Harish-Chandra (1920–1983)
• Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (born 1920)
• Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921–2006)
• P. K. Srinivasan (1924–2005)
• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (born 1930)
• M. S. Narasimhan (born 1932)
• C. S. Seshadri (born 1932)
• K. S. S. Nambooripad (born 1935)
• Vinod Johri (born 1935)
• S. Ramanan (born 1937)
• C. P. Ramanujam (1938–1974)
• V. N. Bhat (1938–2009)
• S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940)
• M. S. Raghunathan (born 1941)
• Gopal Prasad (born 1945)
• Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945–1976)
• S. G. Dani (born 1947)
• Raman Parimala (born 1948)
• Navin M. Singhi (born 1949)
• Narendra Karmarkar (born 1957)
• Manindra Agrawal (born 1966)
• Madhu Sudan (born 1966)
• Chandrashekhar Khare (born 1968)
• Manjul Bhargava (Indian origin American) (born 1974)
• Amit Garg (born 1978)
• Akshay Venkatesh (Indian origin Australian) (born 1981)
• U. S. R. Murty
• Vijay Vazirani (born 1957)
• Umesh Vazirani
• Santosh Vempala
• Kannan Soundararajan (born 1982^{[citation needed]})
• Sucharit Sarkar (born 1983)
• L. Mahadevan