List of Indian mathematicians
Indian mathematicians have made a number of contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era. One of such works is Hindu-Arabic numeral system which is predominantly used today and is likely to be used in the future.
Ancient (Before 320 CE)
[edit]- Shulba sutras (around 1st millenium BCE)[1]
- Baudhayana sutras (fl. c. 900 BCE)
- Yajnavalkya (700 BCE)
- Manava (fl. 750–650 BCE)
- Apastamba Dharmasutra (c. 600 BCE)
- Pāṇini (c. 520–460 BCE)
- Kātyāyana (fl. c. 300 BCE)
- Akṣapada Gautama(c. 600 BCE–200 CE)
- Bharata Muni (200 BCE-200 CE)
- Pingala (c. 3rd/2nd century BCE)
- Bhadrabahu (367 – 298 BCE)
- Umasvati (c. 200 CE)
- Yavaneśvara (2nd century)
- Vasishtha Siddhanta, 4th century CE
Classical (320 CE–520 CE)
[edit]- Vasishtha Siddhanta, 4th century CE
- Aryabhata (476–550 CE)
- Yativrsabha (500–570)
- Varahamihira (505–587 CE)
- Yativṛṣabha, (6th-century CE)
- Virahanka (6th century CE)
Early Medieval Period (521 CE–1206 CE)
[edit]- Brahmagupta (598–670 CE)
- Bhaskara I (600–680 CE)
- Shridhara (between 650–850 CE)
- Lalla (c. 720–790 CE)
- Virasena (792–853 CE)
- Govindasvāmi (c. 800 – c. 860 CE)
- Prithudaka (c. 830 – c. 900CE)
- Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa, (c. 840 – c. 900 CE)
- Vaṭeśvara (born 880 CE)
- Mahavira (9th century CE)
- Jayadeva 9th century CE
- Aryabhata II (920 – c. 1000)
- Mañjula (astronomer) (born 932)
- Vijayanandi (c. 940–1010)
- Halayudha 10th Century
- Śrīpati (1019–1066)
- Abhayadeva Suri (1050 CE)
- Brahmadeva (1060–1130)
- Pavuluri Mallana (11th century CE)
- Hemachandra (1087–1172 CE)
- Bhaskara II (1114–1185 CE)
- Someshvara III (1127–1138 CE)
- Śārṅgadeva (1175-1247)
Late Medieval Period (1206–1526)
[edit]13th Century
[edit]- Thakkar Pheru( 1291– 1347)
14th century
[edit]- Mahendra Suri (1340 – 1400)
- Keshava of Nandigrama (fl. 1496–1507)
- Narayana Pandita (1325–1400)
Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School
[edit]- Gangesha Upadhyaya (first half of the 14th century)
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
[edit]- Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – c. 1425)
- Parameshvara (1360–1455), discovered drek-ganita, a mode of astronomy based on observations
15th century
[edit]Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
[edit]- Chennas Narayanan Namboodiripad (born 1428)
- Nilakantha Somayaji (1444–1545), mathematician and astronomer
- Damodara (15th century)
Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School
[edit]- Raghunatha Siromani (1475–1550)
Early Modern Period (1527– 1800)
[edit]16th Century
[edit]- Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born 1507, fl. 1520-1554)
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
[edit]- Chitrabhanu (16th Century)
- Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
- Jyeshtadeva (1500–1610), author of Yuktibhāṣā
- Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri (AD 1500–1610)
- Achyuta Pisharati (1550–1621), mathematician and astronomer
- Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri (1560–1646/1666)
Golagrama school of astronomy
[edit]17th Century
[edit]- Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580–1649)
- Kṛṣṇa Daivajña (17th century)
- Ataullah Rashidi (17th century)
- Lutfullah Muhandis (17th century)
- Munishvara (born 1603)
- Mulla Jaunpuri (1606–1651)
- Puthumana Somayaji (c. 1660–1740)
Golagrama school of astronomy
[edit]- Kamalakara (1616 – 1700)
- Divākara (born 1606)[4]
18th Century
[edit]- Jagannatha Samrat (1652–1744)
- Jai Singh II (1681 – 1743)
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
- Sankara Varman (1774–1839)
Modern (1800–Present)
[edit]19th century
[edit]- Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870)
- Ramchandra Lal (1821–1880)
- Pathani Samanta (1835–1904)
- Jadav Chandra Chakravarti (1855–1920)
- Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864–1924)
- Ganesh Prasad (1876–1935)
- Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha (1884–1960)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920)
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953)
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972)
- Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi (1844–1897)
- Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya (1866-1937)
20th century
[edit]- Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (1901–1950)
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987)
- Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (1902–1955)
- Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar (1905–1986)
- Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907-1966)
- Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma (1907–1998)
- Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
- Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram (1913–1968)
- P Kesava Menon (1917–1979)
- S. S. Shrikhande (1917–2020)
- Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya (1918–2010)
- Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978)
- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (1920–2023)
- Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921–2006)
- Harish-Chandra (1923–1983)
- P. K. Srinivasan (1924–2005)
- Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924–1997)
- Madan Lal Puri (born 1929)
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar(1930-2012)
- C. S. Seshadri (1932–2020)
- Daya-Nand Verma (1933–2010)
- M. S. Narasimhan (1932–2021)
- J. N. Srivastava (1933-2010)
- Srinivasacharya Raghavan (1934–2014)
- K. S. S. Nambooripad (1935–2020)
- Ramaiyengar Sridharan (born 1935)
- Vinod Johri (1935–2014)
- Karamat Ali Karamat (1936–2022)
- K. R. Parthasarathy (1936–2023)
- S. N. Seshadri (1937–1986)
- Ramdas L. Bhirud (1937–1997)
- S. Ramanan (born 1937)
- Pranab K. Sen (1937–2023)
- Veeravalli S. Varadarajan (1937–2019)
- Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (1937–2017)
- Raghavan Narasimhan (1937-2015)
- C. P. Ramanujam (1938–1974)
- V. N. Bhat (1938–2009)
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940)
- M. S. Raghunathan (born 1941)
- Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni (born 1942)
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh (1942–2019)
- C. R. Rao (1920–2023)
- Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy (1940–2023)
- S. B. Rao (born 1943)
- Phoolan Prasad (born 1944)
- Gopal Prasad (born 1945)
- Rajagopalan Parthasarathy (born 1945)
- Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945–1976)
- Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta (1946-2014)
- S. G. Dani (born 1947)
- Raman Parimala (born 1948)
- Singhi Navin M. (born 1949)
- Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962)
- R. Balasubramanian (born 1951)
- M. Ram Murty (born 1953)
- Alok Bhargava (born 1954)
- Madhav V. Nori (born 1954)
- Rattan Chand (born 1955)
- V. Kumar Murty (born 1956)
- Rajendra Bhatia (born 1952)
- Narendra Karmarkar (born 1957)
- T. N. Venkataramana (born 1958)
- Dipendra Prasad (born 1960)
- Dinesh Thakur (born 1961)
- Manindra Agrawal (born 1966)
- Madhu Sudan (born 1966)
- Suresh Venapally (born 1966)
- Chandrashekhar Khare (born 1968)
- U. S. R. Murty
- L. Mahadevan (born 1965)
- Kapil Hari Paranjape (born 1960)
- Vijay Vazirani (born 1957)
- Umesh Vazirani (born 1959)
- Prasad V. Tetali (born 1964)
- Mahan Mj (born 1968)
- Rahul Pandharipande (born 1969)
- Santosh Vempala (born 1971)
- Kannan Soundararajan (born 1973)
- Kiran Kedlaya (born 1974)
- Manjul Bhargava (born 1974)
- Ritabrata Munshi (born 1976)
- Amit Garg (born 1978)
- Subhash Khot (born 1978)
- Sourav Chatterjee (born 1979)
- Akshay Venkatesh (born 1981)
- Sucharit Sarkar (born 1983)
- Neena Gupta (born 1984)
- Nayandeep Deka Baruah (born 1972)
- Anand Kumar (born 1973)
- Bhargav Bhatt (born 1983)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Singh, A.N. (1936-01-22). "On the Use of Series in Hindu Mathematics". The Chicago Journal. University of Chicago press: 623.
- ^ Eggeling, Julius (1896). Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office Part V. (see items 2857, 2858 in p.1017)
- ^ Pingree, David Erwin (1970). Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Volume 1. American Philosophical Society. pp. 21, 386. ISBN 978-0-87169-081-4.
- ^ Eggeling, Julius (1896). Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office Part V. (see items 2890. 2891 in p.1026)
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