The Great Indian Mathematicians

The chronology of Indian mathematicians spans from the Indus valley civilization and the Vedas to Modern times. 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 important, the Arabic-Hindu numerals predominantly used today and which can be used in the future too.

• Baudhayana (fl. c. 800 BCE)
• Katyayana (fl. c. 300 BCE)
• Rachit (fl.c. 1000 BCE)
• Aryabhata (476–550 CE)
• Varahamihira (505–587 CE)
• Yativṛṣabha – A 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)
• 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)
• Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870)
• Ramchandra (1821–1880)
• Pathani Samanta (1835–1904)
• Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864–1924)
• Ganesh Prasad (1876–1935)
• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920)
• A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953)
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972)
• Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)
• 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)
• Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921–2006)
• 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
• 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)
• Manjul Bhargava (Indian origin American) (born 1974)
• Amit Garg (born 1978)
• Akshay Venkatesh (Indian origin Australian) (born 1981)
• U. S. R. Murty
• Vijay Vazirani (born 1957)
• Umesh Vazirani
• Santosh Vempala
• Kannan Soundararajan
• L. Mahadevan