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.
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[hide]Ancient[edit]
- Baudhayana ((fl. c. 800 BCE))
Classical[edit]
Post-Vedic Sanskrit to Pala period mathematicians (5th century BCE to 11th century CE)
- Panini (4th century BCE)
- Pingala (post-Panini)
- Aryabhata – Astronomer who gave accurate calculations for astronomical constants, 476–520 CE
- Varahamihira (505 – 587 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 (1200-1800)[edit]
- Narayana Pandit
- Madhava of Sangamagrama
- Parameshvara, (1360–1455), discovered drk-ganita, a mode of astronomy based on observations
- Nilakantha Somayaji,(1444–1545), Mathematician and Astronomer
- Raghunatha Siromani, (1475–1550), Logician
- Mahendra Suri (14th century)
- Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
- Jyeshtadeva, (1500–1610), Author of Yuktibhāṣā
- Achyuta Pisharati, (1550–1621), Mathematician and Astronomer
- Munishvara (17th century)
- Kamalakara (1657)
- Jagannatha Samrat (1730)
Born in 1800s[edit]
- Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870)
- Ramchandra (1821–1880)
- Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864-1924)
- Ganesh Prasad (1876–1935)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920)
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953)
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972)
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974)
Born in 1900s[edit]
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987)
- Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (1902–1955)
- Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar (1905–1986)
- Samarendra Nath Roy (1906-1964)
- 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 (1935-2014)
- S. Ramanan (born 1937)
- Pranab K. Sen (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)
- Sujatha Ramdorai
- M. Ram Murty (born 1953)
- Narendra Karmarkar (born 1957)
- Dinesh Thakur (mathematician) (born 1961)
- 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
- L. Mahadevan
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