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Here is a chronology of the main Indian mathematicians:
[[File:Srinivasa Ramanujan - OPC - 1.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Srinivasa Ramanujan]]]]
The chronology of Indian mathematicians spans from the [[Indus Valley civilisation]] 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. [[Hindu–Arabic numeral system|Hindu-Arabic numerals]] predominantly used today and likely into the future.
*[[Yajnavalkya]], 1800 BC, the author of the altar mathematics of the Satapatha Brahmana.
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*[[Lagadha]] - Author of a [[1350 BC]] text on Vedic astronomy
== Ancient (Before 320 CE) ==
*[[Baudhayana]], [[800 BC]]
* [[Baudhayana sutras]] (fl. c. 900 BCE)
*[[Manava]], 750 BC
*[[Apastamba]], 700 BC
*[[Yajnavalkya]] (700 BCE)
*[[Manava]] (fl. 750–650 BCE)
*[[Katyayana]], [[400 BC]]
*[[Apastamba Dharmasutra]] (c. 600 BCE)
*[[Panini (scholar)|Panini]], 5th century BC
*[[Pingala]], 5th century BC
*''[[Pāṇini]]'' (c. 520–460 BCE)
* [[Kātyāyana]] (fl. c. 300 BCE)
*[[Aryabhata]] - Astronomer who gave very accurate calculations for constants, 500 AD
*[[Nyāya Sūtras|Akṣapada Gautama]](c. 600 BCE–200 CE)
*[[Varahamihira]]
*[[Bhaskara I]], 620 AD
*[[Bharata Muni]] (200 BCE-200 CE)
*[[Pingala]] (c. 3rd/2nd century BCE)
*[[Brahmagupta]] - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic,
* [[Bhadrabahu]] (367 – 298 BCE)
*[[Virahanka]] ([[8th century]]) - Gave explicit rules for the Fibonacci series.
* [[Umasvati]] (c. 200 CE)
*[[Shridhara]] (between [[650]]-[[850]]) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.
*[[Govindsvamin]] ([[9th century]])
* [[Yavaneśvara|Yavaneśvara (2nd century)]]
* [[Vasishtha Siddhanta]], 4th century CE
*[[Virasena]]
*[[Mahavira (mathematician)|Mahavira]] ([[9th century]])
*[[Jayadeva (mathematician)|Jayadeva]] ([[9th century]])
*[[Prithudaka]], 9th century
*[[Halayudha]], 10th century
*[[Vateshvara]] ([[10th century]])
*[[Gopala]] - Studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
*[[Hemachandra]] - Also studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
*[[Bhaskara]]
*[[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]])
*[[Jyesthadeva]]
*[[Munishvara]] ([[17th century]])
*[[Kamalakara]] ([[1657]])
*[[Jagannatha]] ([[1730]])
*[[Srinivasa Ramanujan]] ([[1887]])


== Classical (320 CE–520 CE) ==
=See also==
*[[Vasishtha Siddhanta]], 4th century CE
*[http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BirthplaceMaps/Countries/India.html Mathematicians born in India]
* [[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) ==
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* [[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 (mathematician)|Mahavira]] (9th century CE)
* [[Jayadeva (mathematician)|Jayadeva]] 9th century CE
* [[Aryabhata II]] (920 – c. 1000)
* [[Mañjula (astronomer)]] (born 932)
* [[Vijayanandi]] (c. 940–1010)
* [[Halayudha]] 10th Century
* [[Śrīpati]] (1019–1066)
* [[Sthananga Sutra|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) ==

=== 13th Century ===

* [[Thakkar Pheru]]( 1291– 1347)

=== 14th century ===

* [[Mahendra Suri]] (1340 – 1400)
* [[Keshava of Nandigrama]] (fl. 1496–1507)
* [[Narayana Pandita (mathematician)|Narayana Pandita]] (1325–1400)

==== Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School ====

* [[Gangesha Upadhyaya]] (first half of the 14th century)

==== Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy ====

*[[Madhava of Sangamagrama]] (<abbr>c.</abbr> 1340 – c. 1425)
* [[Parameshvara]] (1360–1455), discovered drek-ganita, a mode of astronomy based on observations
* [[Puthumana Somayaji]] (<abbr>c.</abbr> 1380–1460)

=== 15th century ===

==== Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy ====
* [[Chennas Narayanan Namboodiripad]] (born 1428)
* [[Nilakantha Somayaji]] (1444–1545), mathematician and astronomer
* [[Damodara]] (15th century)

==== Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School ====
* [[Raghunatha Siromani]] (1475–1550)

== Early Modern Period (1527– 1800) ==

=== 16th Century ===

* [[Gaṇeśa Daivajna]] (born 1507, <abbr>fl.</abbr> 1520-1554)

==== Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy ====
*[[Chitrabhanu (mathematician)|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 ====
* [[Nṛsiṃha (astronomer)|Nṛsiṃha]] (born 1586)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eggeling |first=Julius |url=http://ia341228.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.php?file=0/items/p5a7catalogueofs02greauoft/p5a7catalogueofs02greauoft.djvu |title=Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office Part V |date=1896}} (see items 2857, 2858 in p.1017)</ref>
* Mallari (fl.1575)<ref name="Pingree">{{Cite book |last=Pingree |first=David Erwin |url=https://archive.org/details/censusofexactsci01ping |title=Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Volume 1 |date=1970 |publisher=[[American Philosophical Society]] |isbn=978-0-87169-081-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/censusofexactsci01ping/page/21 21], 386}}</ref>

=== 17th Century ===

* [[Muhammad Saleh Thattvi]] ( <abbr>fl.</abbr> 1663–64)
* Ali Kashmiri ibn Luqman (fl. 1589-90)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sarma |first=Sreeramula Rajeswara |date=1994 |title=The Lahore Family of Astrolabists and Their Ouvrage |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44143367 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=55 |pages=287–302 |issn=2249-1937}}</ref>
* [[Ustad Ahmad Lahori]] (1580–1649)
* [[Ataullah Rashidi]] (17th century)
* [[Lutfullah Muhandis]] (17th century)
* [[Munishvara]] (born 1603)
* [[Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri|Mulla Jaunpuri]] (1606–1651)

==== Golagrama school of astronomy ====

*[[Kamalakara]] (1616 – 1700)
* Divākara (born 1606)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eggeling |first=Julius |url=http://ia341228.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.php?file=0/items/p5a7catalogueofs02greauoft/p5a7catalogueofs02greauoft.djvu |title=Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office Part V |date=1896}} (see items 2890. 2891 in p.1026)</ref>

=== 18th Century ===
* [[Jagannatha Samrat]] (1652–1744)
* [[Sawai Jai Singh|Jai Singh II]] (1681 – 1743)
'''Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy'''
* [[Sankara Varman]] (1774–1839)

== Modern (1800–Present) ==

=== 19th century ===
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* [[Radhanath Sikdar]] (1813–1870)
* [[Ramchundra|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)
*[[Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi]] (1844–1897)
* [[Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya]] (1866-1937)
}}[[File:Komaravolu Chandrasekharan MFO 1987.jpg|thumb|200px|Indian mathematician [[K. S. Chandrasekharan|Komaravolu Chandrasekhar]] in Vienna, 1987]]

=== 20th century ===
* [[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)
* [[Shrikhande S. S.|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 (probabilist)|K. R. Parthasarathy]] (1936–2023)
* [[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)
* [[Raghavan Narasimhan]] (1937-2015)
* [[C. P. Ramanujam]] (1938–1974)
* [[Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak|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]] (born 1941)
* [[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)
* [[Navin M. Singhi|Singhi Navin M.]] (born 1949)
* [[Narayan Ch Ghosh]] (born 1949)
* [[Sujatha Ramdorai]]
* [[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 (mathematician)|Dinesh Thakur]] (born 1961)
* [[Manindra Agrawal]] (born 1966)
* [[Madhu Sudan]] (born 1966)
* [[Suresh Venapally]] (born 1966)
* [[Chandrashekhar Khare]] (born 1968)
* [[U. S. R. Murty]]
* [[Ramji Lal]] (born 1945)
* [[L. Mahadevan]]
* [[Kapil Hari Paranjape]]
* [[Vijay Vazirani]] (born 1957)
* [[Umesh Vazirani]]
* [[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 (mathematician)|Neena Gupta]] (born 1984)
* [[Nayandeep Deka Baruah]] (born 1972)
* [[Anand Kumar]] (born 1973)

==See also==
*[[List of Indian scientists]]
*[[List of Indian astronauts]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.famousmathematicians.net/famous-indian-mathematicians/ Famous Indian Mathematicians]
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Srinivasa Ramanujan

The chronology of Indian mathematicians spans from the Indus Valley civilisation 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. Hindu-Arabic numerals predominantly used today and likely into the future.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Ancient (Before 320 CE)[edit]

Classical (320 CE–520 CE)[edit]

Early Medieval Period (521 CE–1206 CE)[edit]

Late Medieval Period (1206–1526)[edit]

13th Century[edit]

14th century[edit]

Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School[edit]

Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy[edit]

15th century[edit]

Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy[edit]

Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School[edit]

Early Modern Period (1527– 1800)[edit]

16th Century[edit]

Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy[edit]

Golagrama school of astronomy[edit]

17th Century[edit]

Golagrama school of astronomy[edit]

18th Century[edit]

Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy

Modern (1800–Present)[edit]

19th century[edit]

Indian mathematician Komaravolu Chandrasekhar in Vienna, 1987

20th century[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Eggeling, Julius (1896). Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office Part V. (see items 2857, 2858 in p.1017)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Sarma, Sreeramula Rajeswara (1994). "The Lahore Family of Astrolabists and Their Ouvrage". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 55: 287–302. ISSN 2249-1937.
  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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