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Indian mathematicians
Here is a chronology of the main Indian mathematicians:
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BCE
- Yajnavalkya, 1800 BC, the author of the altar mathematics of the Shatapatha Brahmana.
- Lagadha - Author of a 1350 BC text on Vedic astronomy
- Baudhayana, 800 BC
- Manava, 750 BC
- Apastamba, 700 BC
- Akshapada Gautama, 550 BC, Logician
- Katyayana, 400 BC
- Panini, 5th century BC
- Pingala, 5th century BC
- Bharata Muni, 450 BC
0-1000 CE
- Aryabhata - Astronomer who gave very accurate calculations for constants, 500 AD
- Varahamihira
- Bhaskara I, 620 AD
- Brahmagupta - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic,
- Virahanka (8th century) - Gave explicit rules for the Fibonacci series.
- Shridhara (between 650-850) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.
- Lalla, 720-790
- Govindsvamin (9th century)
- Virasena
- Mahavira (9th century)
- Jayadeva (9th century)
- Prithudaka, 9th century
- Halayudha, 10th century
- Aryabhata II, 920-1000
- Vateshvara (10th century)
1000CE-1800CE
- Brahmadeva, 1060-1130
- Sripati, 1019-1066
- Gopala - Studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
- Hemachandra - Also studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
- Bhaskara
- Gangesha Upadhyaya, 13th century, Logician, Mithila school
- Pakshadhara , sone of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
- Shankara Mishra , Logician, Mithila school
- Narayana Pandit
- Madhava - Considered the father of mathematical analysis
- Parameshvara (1360-1455)
- Nilakantha Somayaji - Mathematician and Astronomer
- Mahendra Suri (14th century)
- Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
- Vasudeva Sarvabhauma , 1450-1525, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Raghunatha Shiromani , (1475-1550), Logician, Navadvipa school
- Mathuranatha Tarkavagisha , c. 1575, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Jyesthadeva
- Jagadisha Tarkalankara , c. 1625, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Gadadhara Bhattacharya , c. 1650, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Munishvara (17th century)
- Kamalakara (1657)
- Jagannatha (1730)
Born in 1800s
- Jagdish Chandra Bose
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- C.V. Raman
- P.C. Mahalanobis
- Meghnad Saha
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar
Born in 1900s
- S. Chandrasekhar
- Raj Chandra Bose, 1902-
- D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
- Harish-Chandra
- C.Radhakrishna Rao
- G.N. Ramachandran, 1922-2001
- George Sudarshan
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
- Vijay Kumar Patodi
- Narendra Karmarkar
See also
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10-26-2009 08:16:03
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