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)