NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Indian mathematicians

Sage Yajnavalkya of Mithila (perhaps 1800 BC) advanced a 95-year cycle to synchronize the motions of the sun and the moon. ... Shatapatha Brahmana (Brahmana of one-hundred paths) is one of the prose texts describing the Vedic ritual. ... Lagadha (लगध) is the author of Vedanga Jyotisha, the text on Vedic astronomy that has been dated to 1350 BC. This text describes rules for tracking the motions of the sun and the moon. ... (Redirected from 1350 BC) Centuries: 15th century BC - 14th century BC - 13th century BC Decades: 1400s BC 1390s BC 1380s BC 1370s BC 1360s BC - 1350s BC - 1340s BC 1330s BC 1320s BC 1310s BC 1300s BC Events and Trends Significant People 1350 BC - Pharaoh Amenhotep IV Akhenaton rises to... Baudhayana, (circa 800 BC), was a Vedic Indian mathematician/scribe. ... Centuries: 10th century BC - 9th century BC - 8th century BC Decades: 850s BC 840s BC 830s BC 820s BC 810s BC - 800s BC - 790s BC 780s BC 770s BC 760s BC 750s BC Events and Trends 804 BC - Hadad-nirari IV of Assyria conquers Damascus. ... Manava (c. ... Apastamba (c. ... Aksapada Gautama (probably c. ... Katyayana was probably a priest who lived in India around 200 BC. Like Baudhayana, he composed Shulba Sutra, or sacred mathematical texts. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC Years: 405 BC 404 BC 403 BC 402 BC 401 BC - 400 BC - 399 BC 398 BC... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Pingala (पिङ्गल) is the author of the Chhandah-shastra, the Sanskrit book on meters, or long syllables. ... Bharata Muni, dated variously 5th century BC to 2nd century BC authored the Indian arts including theater, dance, acting, and music. ...

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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.
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)

Aryabhata (आर्यभट) (Āryabhaṭa) is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. ... Varahamihira (505-587) was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. ... Bhaskara I, 7th century Indian mathematician, gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhatas work. ... Brahmagupta (ब्रह्मगुप्त) (598_668) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. ... Virahanka (विरहाङ्क) was an Indian mathematician who lived sometime in the 8th century. ... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ... Shridhara (श्रीधर), 8th century Indian mathematician, gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere. ... Events Arab conquest of Persia, establishment of Islam as state religion Hindu empire in Sumatra Croats and Serbs occupy Bosnia Khazars conquer Great Bulgarian Empire in southern Russia building of St. ... Events April 20 - Guntherus becomes Bishop of Cologne. ... Lalla (720-790) belonged to a family of astronomers. ... Govindasvamin, 9th century Indian mathematician, gave the fractional parts of the Aryabhatas tabular sines. ... ( 8th century - 9th century - 10th century - other centuries) Events Beowulf might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the 8th century Reign of Charlemagne, and concurrent (and controversially labeled) Carolingian Renaissance in western Europe Viking attacks on Europe begin Oseberg ship burial The... Virasena was a 9th century Indian mathematician who gave derivation of the volume of a frustrum by a sort of infinite procedure. ... Mahavira, 9th century Indian mathematician, asserted that the square root of a negative number did not exist. ... ( 8th century - 9th century - 10th century - other centuries) Events Beowulf might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the 8th century Reign of Charlemagne, and concurrent (and controversially labeled) Carolingian Renaissance in western Europe Viking attacks on Europe begin Oseberg ship burial The... Jayadeva (जयदेव), 9th century Indian mathematician, knew the cyclic method (cakravala) that was called by Hermann Hankel as the finest thing achieved in the theory of numbers before Lagrange (18th century). ... ( 8th century - 9th century - 10th century - other centuries) Events Beowulf might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the 8th century Reign of Charlemagne, and concurrent (and controversially labeled) Carolingian Renaissance in western Europe Viking attacks on Europe begin Oseberg ship burial The... Prithudaka (पृथूदक) was a 9th century Indian mathematician who wrote an important commentary on Brahmaguptas work and also made important contributions to mathematical series. ... Halayudha (हलायुध), 10th century Indian mathematician, wrote a commentary on Pingalas Chandah-shastra where Pingalas knowledge of the meru-prastaara (Pascals triangle) is explicitly mentioned. ... Aryabhata II (920-1000) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer, and the author of the Maha_Siddhanta. ... Vateshvara (वटेश्वर), a 10th century Indian mathematician, presented several trigonometric identities. ... ( 9th century - 10th century - 11th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ...

1000-1800

Brahmadeva, 1060-1130
Sripati, 1019-1066
Gopala - Studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
Hemachandra - Also studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
Bhaskara
Gangesha Upadhyaya, 13th century, Logician, Mithila school
Pakshadhara, sone of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
Shankara Mishra, Logician, Mithila school
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)
Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, 1450-1525, Logician, Navadvipa school
Raghunatha Shiromani, (1475-1550), Logician, Navadvipa school
Mathuranatha Tarkavagisha, c. 1575, Logician, Navadvipa school
Jyesthadeva
Jagadisha Tarkalankara, c. 1625, Logician, Navadvipa school
Gadadhara Bhattacharya, c. 1650, Logician, Navadvipa school
Munishvara (17th century)
Kamalakara (1657)
Jagannatha (1730)

Brahmadeva (1060-1130), was the author of Karanaprakasa which is a commentary on the Aryabhatiya by Aryabhata. ... Sripati (1019-1066) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician and author of Dhikotidakarana written in 1039, a work of twenty verses on solar and lunar eclipses; Dhruvamanasa written in 1056, a work of 105 verses on calculating planetary longitudes, eclipses and planetary transits; Siddhantasekhara a major work on astronomy in... Gopala was an Indian mathematician, who studied the so-called Fibonacci numbers in 1135. ... Hemachandra Suri (हेमचन्द्र सूरी) (correct Sanskrit spelling Hemacandra Sürí) (1089 -1172) was one of the greatest scholars of his time. ... Bhāskara (1114-1185), also called Bhāskara II and Bhāskarācārya (Bhaskara the teacher) was an Indian mathematician. ... Gangesha Upadhyaya, 13th century, Mithila, established the Navya-Nyaya, New Logic, school. ... Narayana Pandit (नारायण पण्डित) (1340-1400) was a major mathematician of the Kerala school. ... Madhava is another name for Vishnu and appears as the 72nd, 167th and 735th names in the Vishnu sahasranama. ... Parameshvara (परमेश्वर) (1360-1425) was a major mathematician of the Kerala school. ... Events Treaty of Brétigny King Valdemar Atterdag of Denmark seizes Scania (from 1658 a Swedish province). ... Events February 9 - Wars of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York dismissed as Protector February 23 - Johannes Gutenberg prints the first Bible on a printing press May 22 - Wars of the Roses: First Battle of St Albans - Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick defeat... Nilakantha Somayaji (नीलकण्ठ सोमयाजि) (1444-1544), from Kerala, was a major mathematician and astronomer. ... Mahendra Suri was the author of the astronomical text Yantraraja. ... (13th century - 14th century - 15th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400. ... Shankara Variyar, wrote the celebrated Yuktidipika, a commentary on the Tantra-sangraha of Nilakantha Somayaji. ... Events June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire. ... Jyesthadeva (1500-1575), born in Kerala, was a major mathematician, and author of the 1501 Yukti-bhasa, which was a survey of Kerala mathematics and astronomy that was unique at the time for its exacting proofs of the theorems it presented. ... Munishvara, 17th century Indian mathematician, presented accurate sine tables. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Kamalakara (1616-1700), an Indian astronomer and mathematician, came from a family of famous astronomers. ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... Jagannatha (1690-1750) was an astronomer in the court of Jai Singh. ... Events Pope Clement XII elected September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754) Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina Births May 13 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. ...

Born in 1800s

Jagdish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858–November 23, 1937) was a leading physicist of his age. ... Ramanujan Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ஐயங்கார் ராமானுஜன்) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was a groundbreaking Indian mathematician. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Satyendra Nath Bose /sɐθ. ... Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (चन्द्रशेखर वेङ्कट रामन्) (November 7, 1888-November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist. ... Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (born June 29, 1893, died June 28, 1972) was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. ... Meghnad Saha (मेघनाथ साहा) (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist. ... A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953) was a mathematician from India. ...

Born in 1900s

S. Chandrasekhar
Raj Chandra Bose, 1902-
D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
Harish-Chandra
C.Radhakrishna Rao
G.N. Ramachandran, 1922-2001
George Sudarshan
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Vijay Kumar Patodi
Narendra Karmarkar
M.V. Subbarao

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician. ... Raj Chandra Bose (June 19, 1901 - October 31, 1987) Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory and the theory of error-correcting codes. ... See Harishchandra for the character in Hindu mythology Harish-Chandra (11 October 1923-16 October 1983) was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory. ... Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (8 October 1922 - 7 April 2001), is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Indian scientists of the 20th century, best known for creating the Ramachandran Map for understanding peptide structure. ... E.C.G. Sudarshan (September 16, 1931, Pallam, Kerala) is a prominent Indian physicist and author. ... Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (born 1930)is Marshall Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. He earned his B.Sc. ... Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945-1976) made fundamental contributions to topology. ... Narendra Karmarkar (born 1957) is an Indian mathematician. ...

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