List of Indian mathematicians
Indian mathematicians have made a number of contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era. One of such works is Hindu numeral system which is predominantly used today and is likely to be used in the future.
Ancient (Before 320 CE)
- Shulba sutras
- Baudhayana sutras
- Yajnavalkya
- Manava
- Apastamba Dharmasutra
- Pāṇini
- Kātyāyana
- Akṣapada Gautama
- Bharata Muni
- Pingala
- Bhadrabahu
- Umasvati
- Yavaneśvara (2nd century)
- Vasishtha Siddhanta, 4th century CE
Classical (320 CE–520 CE)
Early Medieval Period (521 CE–1206 CE)
- Brahmagupta
- Bhaskara I
- Shridhara
- Lalla
- Virasena
- Govindasvāmi
- Prithudaka
- Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa,
- Vaṭeśvara
- Mahavira
- Jayadeva 9th century CE
- Aryabhata II
- Mañjula (astronomer)
- Vijayanandi
- Halayudha 10th Century
- Bhoja
- Śrīpati
- Abhayadeva Suri
- Brahmadeva
- Pavuluri Mallana
- Hemachandra
- Bhaskara II
- Someshvara III
- Śārṅgadeva
Late Medieval Period (1206–1526)
13th Century
14th century
Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
- Madhava of Sangamagrama
- Parameshvara, discovered drek-ganita, a mode of astronomy based on observations
15th century
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
- Chennas Narayanan Namboodiripad
- Nilakantha Somayaji, mathematician and astronomer
- Damodara
Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School
Early Modern Period (1527– 1800)
16th Century
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
- Chitrabhanu
- Shankara Variyar
- Jyeshtadeva, author of Yuktibhāṣā
- Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri
- Achyuta Pisharati, mathematician and astronomer
- Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri
Golagrama school of astronomy
- Nṛsiṃha
- Mallari
17th Century
Golagrama school of astronomy
- Kamalakara
- Divākara
18th Century
Kerala School of Mathematics and AstronomyModern (1800–Present)
20th century
- Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai
- Raj Chandra Bose
- Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
- Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar
- Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi
- Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma
- Sarvadaman Chowla
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram
- P Kesava Menon
- S. S. Shrikhande
- Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya
- Anil Kumar Gain
- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
- Mathukumalli V. Subbarao
- Harish-Chandra
- P. K. Srinivasan
- Raghu Raj Bahadur
- Madan Lal Puri
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
- C. S. Seshadri
- Daya-Nand Verma
- M. S. Narasimhan
- J. N. Srivastava
- Srinivasacharya Raghavan
- K. S. S. Nambooripad
- Ramaiyengar Sridharan
- Vinod Johri
- Karamat Ali Karamat
- K. R. Parthasarathy
- S. N. Seshadri
- Ramdas L. Bhirud
- S. Ramanan
- Pranab K. Sen
- Veeravalli S. Varadarajan
- Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
- Raghavan Narasimhan
- C. P. Ramanujam
- V. N. Bhat
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
- M. S. Raghunathan
- Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh
- C. R. Rao
- Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy
- S. B. Rao
- Phoolan Prasad
- Gopal Prasad
- Rajagopalan Parthasarathy
- Vijay Kumar Patodi
- Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta
- S. G. Dani
- Raman Parimala
- Singhi Navin M.
- Sujatha Ramdorai
- R. Balasubramanian
- M. Ram Murty
- Alok Bhargava
- Madhav V. Nori
- Rattan Chand
- Gadadhar Misra
- V. Kumar Murty
- Rajendra Bhatia
- Narendra Karmarkar
- T. N. Venkataramana
- Dipendra Prasad
- Dinesh Thakur
- Manindra Agrawal
- Madhu Sudan
- Suresh Venapally
- Chandrashekhar Khare
- U. S. R. Murty
- L. Mahadevan
- Kapil Hari Paranjape
- Vijay Vazirani
- Umesh Vazirani
- Prasad V. Tetali
- Mahan Mj
- Rahul Pandharipande
- Santosh Vempala
- Kannan Soundararajan
- Kiran Kedlaya
- Manjul Bhargava
- M.P.Chaudhary
- Ritabrata Munshi
- Amit Garg
- Subhash Khot
- Sourav Chatterjee
- Akshay Venkatesh
- Sucharit Sarkar
- Neena Gupta
- Bhargav Bhatt
- Tejas Pugalia