India has had a long legacy of extraordinary teachers and scholars who had immense knowledge about mathematics and astronomy. From discovering the concept of zero to calculating the correct days in a year, mathematicians in India have been at the forefront of challenging the norms as well as a thirst for knowledge.
Here are 10 Indian mathematicians who changed the world with their discoveries:
1:- Aryabhata
Aryabhata was born in 476 CE in Pataliputra which is present-day Patna, Bihar. He is famous for putting out concepts like lunar eclipse and solar eclipse, rotation of Earth on its axis, a reflection of light by moon, the value of pi correct to 4 decimal places, the circumference of Earth to 99.8 percent accuracy. His works include the famous Aryabhatiya which he wrote when he was just 23 years old. He influenced other future mathematicians and thinkers like Lalla, Bhaskara I, Brahmagupta, Varahamihira.
2:- Brahmagupta
Brahmagupta was born in 598 CE in Ujjain. He was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. His book Brahmasphutasiddhanta is the first text that mentions zero as a number. Besides that, he also gave out many algebra and arithmetic related concepts and formulas.
3:- Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887, in the present-day Tamil Nadu, India. He is one of the most recognized Indian mathematicians although he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics. He is known for mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.
4:- P.C. Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born on June 29, 1893, in Kolkata, West Bengal. A renowned Indian scientist and applied statistician he contributed the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning commission of free India. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys.
5:- C.R. Rao
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (C R Rao) was born on September 10, 1920, in Mysore. He is an Indian-born and now naturalized American citizen. A mathematician and statistician, he is currently a professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. His contributions include estimation theory, statistical inference, and linear models multivariate analysis, combinatorial design, orthogonal arrays, biometry, statistical genetics, generalized matrix inverses, and functional equations.
6:- D. R. Kaprekar
Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born on January 17, 1905, in Dahanu, Maharashtra. He was a recreational mathematician who described several classes of natural numbers including the Kaprekar, Harshad, and Self numbers, and discovered the Kaprekar constant. He published extensively and became well known in recreational mathematics circles without a formal doctorate.
7:- Harish Chandra
Harish Chandra was born on October 11, 1923, in Kanpur, India. The Indian American mathematician and physicist is known for his fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
8:- Satyendranath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was born on January 1, 1894, in Kolkata, India. A renowned Indian physics, he specialized in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate. He was awarded India's second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India. The class of particles that obey Bose-Einstein statistics, Bosons, was named after Bose.
9:- Bhaskara
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