List of Indian mathematicians

The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus valley civilization and the Vedas to Modern times.

Indian mathematicians have made outstanding discoveries in the subject of mathematics as we know it today. The decimal notation of numbers, and the concept of zero being two examples.

Vedic

• the Shatapatha Brahmana contains calculations related to altar construction.
• Shulba Sutras attributed to Baudhayana and Manava, ca. 8th to 6th c. BC
• Kalpasutra of Apastamba, ca. 8th to 6th c. BC
• Panini, ca. 5th c. BC, Algebraic grammarian

Classical

Post-Vedic Sanskrit to Pala period mathematicians (5th c. BC to 11th c. AD)

• Katyayana, ca. 3rd c. BC
• Chandas-shastra of Pingala, ca. 200 BC
• Vedanga Jyotisha, final centuries BC
• Natya Shastra of Bharata, final centuries BC.
• Nyaya Sutras of Aksapada Gautama, 2nd to 3rd c. AD
• Aryabhata - Astronomer who gave accurate calculations for astronomical constants, 476-520
• Varahamihira
• Bhaskara I, 620
• Brahmagupta - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic
• Matanga Muni - Combinatorics in music
• Virahanka (8th century) - Described the Fibonacci series.
• Shridhara (between 650-850) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.
• Lalla, 720-790
• Govindsvamin (9th century)
• Virasena
• Mahavira (9th century)
• Jayadeva (9th century)
• Prithudaka, 9th century
• Halayudha, 10th century
• Aryabhata II, 920-1000
• Vateshvara (10th century)
• Manjula, 930
• Brahmadeva, 1060-1130
• Sripati, 1019-1066
• Gopala - Studied Fibonacci numbers
• Hemachandra - Studied Fibonacci numbers
• Bhaskara II

Medieval to Mughal period

13th century to 1800.

• Gangesha Upadhyaya, 13th century, Logician, Mithila school
• Pakshadhara, son of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
• Shankara Mishra, Logician, Mithila school
• Narayana Pandit
• Madhava - Discovered some elements of Calculus
• Parameshvara (1360-1455), discovered drk-ganita, a mathematical model of astronomy based on observations, Madhava's Kerala school
• Nilakantha Somayaji,1444-1545 - Mathematician and Astronomer, Madhava's Kerala school
• Mahendra Suri (14th century)
• Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
• Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, 1450-1525, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Raghunatha Shiromani, (1475-1550), Logician, Navadvipa school
• Jyeshtadeva , 1500-1610, Author of Yuktibhasa, Madhava's Kerala school
• Achyuta Pisharati, 1550-1621, Astronomer/mathematician, Madhava's Kerala school
• Mathuranatha Tarkavagisha, c. 1575, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Jagadisha Tarkalankara, c. 1625, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Gadadhara Bhattacharya, c. 1650, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Munishvara (17th century)
• Kamalakara (1657)
• Jagannatha Samrat (1730)

Born in 1800s

• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
• A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892-1953)
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972
• Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974)
• Sanjeev Shah (1803- 1896)
• Raghunath Purushottam Paranjape

Born in 1900s

• Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987)
• S. N. Roy (1906-1966)
• Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
• D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
• Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
• C. R. Rao (1920-)
• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-)
• Ramdas Lotu Bhirud(1937-1997)
• Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945-1976)
• Narendra Karmarkar (1957-)
• Manjul Bhargava (1975 - )
• M.V. Subbarao (1921-2006)
• Divakar Viswanath
• Kishore Marathe
• Dhananjay P. Mehendale
• Bhama Srinivasan (1935-)
• Madhav Nori
• Ragavan Narasimhan
• Dr. Chukka Ramaiah
• Prof.S.R.Varadhan
• Kannan Soundararajan
• Dattatraya Ramchandra Kaprekar.
• prof. S.A.H Rizvi