List of Indian mathematicians

Here is a chronology of the main Indian mathematicians:

• Yajnavalkya, 1800 BC, the author of the altar mathematics of the Satapatha Brahmana.
• Lagadha - Author of a 1350 BC text on Vedic astronomy
• Baudhayana, 800 BC
• Manava, 750 BC
• Apastamba, 700 BC
• Katyayana, 400 BC
• Panini, 5th century BC
• Pingala, 5th century BC
• 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.
• Govindsvamin (9th century)
• Virasena
• Mahavira (9th century)
• 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)

See also

• Mathematicians born in India