List of Indian mathematicians

Most celebrated Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan

Indian mathematician Komaravolu Chandrasekhar in Vienna, 1987.

The chronology of Indian mathematicians spans from the Indus Valley Civilization and the Vedas to Modern India.

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 use of the ruler, the concept of zero, and, most importantly, the Arabic-Hindu numerals predominantly used today and likely into the future.

Ancient

• Baudhayana (fl. c. 800 BCE)
• Katyayana (fl. c. 300 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)
• Pavuluri Mallana – (11th century CE)
• Hemachandra (1087–1172 CE)
• Bhaskara II (1114–1185 CE)

Medieval to Mughal 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 1800s

• Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870)
• Ramchandra (1821–1880)
• Pathani Samanta (1835–1904)
• 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)
• Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)

Born in 1900s

• 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)
• Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978)
• Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (born 1920)
• Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
• P. K. Srinivasan (1924–2005)
• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930–2012)
• M. S. Narasimhan (born 1932)
• C. S. Seshadri (born 1932)
• K. S. S. Nambooripad (born 1935)
• Ramaiyengar Sridharan (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)
• Vashishtha Narayan Singh (born 1942)
• S. B. Rao (born 1943)
• 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
• R. Balasubramanian (born 1951)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ritabrata Munshi (born 1976)
• Amit Garg (born 1978)
• Subhash Khot(born 1978)

External links

• Top 10 Indian Mathematicians