List of Indian mathematicians
The chronology of Indian mathematicians spans from the Indus Valley Civilization and the Vedas to Modern India.
Most celebrated Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematicians have made a number of contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era. Arabic-Hindu numerals predominantly used today and likely into the future.
Ancient
- Baudhayana (fl. c. 900 BCE)
- Katyayana (fl. c. 300 BCE)
- Pingala (possibly c. 500 BCE)
Classical
Post-Vedic Sanskrit to Pala period mathematicians (5th century BCE to 11th century CE)
- Aryabhata (476–550 CE)
- Varahamihira (505–587 CE)
- Yativṛṣabha – 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 (598–670 CE) – Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic
- Bhaskara I (600–680 CE)
- Shridhara (between 650–850) – Gave a rule for finding the volume of a sphere
- Mahavira (9th century CE)
- Halayudha 10th Century
- Pavuluri Mallana – (11th century CE)
- Hemachandra (1087–1172 CE)
- Bhaskara II (1114–1185 CE)
Medieval Period (1200–1800)
- 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 19th century
- Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870)
- Ramchandra (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)
- K. C. Nag (1893–1987)
- Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi (1844- 1897)
Born in 20th century
Indian mathematician Komaravolu Chandrasekhar in Vienna, 1987
- Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (1901–1950)
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987)
- Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (1902–1955)
- Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar (1905–1986)
- Samarendra Nath Roy (1906–1964)
- Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966)
- Sarvadaman Chowla (1907–1995)
- Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma (1907–1998)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
- S. S. Shrikhande (born 1917)
- Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya (1918-2010)
- Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978)
- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (born 1920)
- Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
- P. K. Srinivasan (1924–2005)
- Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924-1997)
- Gopinath Kallianpur (1925-2015)
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930–2012)
- Surindar Kumar Trehan (1931-2004)
- Jagdish Narain Srivastava(1933-2010)
- C.S. Seshadri (born 1932)
- M. S. Narasimhan (born 1932)
- kishitaverma (born 2006)
- Srinivasacharya Raghavan (born 1934)
- K. S. S. Nambooripad (1935–2020)
- Ramaiyengar Sridharan (born 1935)
- Vinod Johri (1935–2014)
- K. R. Parthasarathy (born 1936)
- S. N. Seshadri (1937-1986)
- Ramdas L. Bhirud (1937-1997)
- S. Ramanan (born 1937)
- Pranab K. Sen (born 1937)
- Veeravalli S. Varadarajan (1937–2019)
- Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (1937–2017)
- C. P. Ramanujam (1938–1974)
- V. N. Bhat (1938–2009)
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940)
- M. S. Raghunathan (born 1941)
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh (1942–2019)
- S. B. Rao (born 1943)
- Phoolan Prasad (born 1944)
- 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
- P. N. Pandey (born 1951)
- R. Balasubramanian (born 1951)
- M. Ram Murty (born 1953)
- Alok Bhargava (born 1954)
- Rattan Chand (born 1955)
- V. Kumar Murty (born 1956)
- Rajendra Bhatia (born 1952)
- Narendra Karmarkar (born 1957)
- Dipendra Prasad (born 1960)
- Dinesh Thakur (born 1961)
- Manindra Agrawal (born 1966)
- Madhu Sudan (born 1966)
- Chandrashekhar Khare (born 1968)
- U. S. R. Murty
- L. Mahadevan
- Kapil Hari Paranjape
- Vijay Vazirani (born 1957)
- Umesh Vazirani
- Mahan Mj (born 1968)
- Santosh Vempala (born 1971)
- Kannan Soundararajan (born 1973)
- Kiran Kedlaya (born 1974)
- Manjul Bhargava (born 1974)
- Ritabrata Munshi (born 1976)
- 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)
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