List of Indian mathematicians

Indian mathematician Komaravolu Chandrasekharan in Vienna, 1987.

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.

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

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Medieval to Mughal period

13th century to 1800.13th century, Logician, mithila school

• Pakshadhara, son of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
• Shankara Mishra, Logician, Mithila school
• Narayana Pandit
• Madhava of Sangamagramasome elements of Calculus
• 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'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

• Ramchundra (1821 - 1880)
• 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)
• Raghvendra Singh(1974-)
• K. S. S. Nambooripad
• Jayant Narlikar (1938-)
• Srinivasa Varadhan (1940-)
• Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945-1976)
• Narendra Karmarkar (1957-)
• Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921-2006)
• Navin M. Singhi
• S. S. Shrikhande
• Raj Chandra Bose
• Canjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri
• Narasimhan, M. S.
• Parthasarathy, K. R.
• C. P. Ramanujam
• Raghavan Narsimhan
• Ramanan, S.
• Raghunathan, M. S.
• Madhav Nori
• Manindra Agrawal (1966-)
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