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Indian mathematics emerged in the Indian subcontinent [1] from 1200 BCE [2] until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Varāhamihira, and Madhava. The decimal number system in use today [3] was first ...
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar[a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.
Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[3][4] (476–550 CE) [5][6] was the first of the major mathematician - astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions that in 3600 Kali Yuga, 499 CE, he was 23 years old) [7] and the Arya- siddhanta.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 October 2024. Indian mathematician and astronomer (598–668) Brahmagupta Born c. 598 CE Bhillamala, Gurjaradesa, Chavda kingdom (modern day Bhinmal, Rajasthan, India) Died c. 668 CE (aged c. 69–70) Ujjain, Chalukya Empire (modern day Madhya Pradesh, India) Known for Rules for computing with Zero ...
Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born 1507, fl. 1520-1554) Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy. Chitrabhanu (16th Century) Shankara Variyar (c. 1530) Jyeshtadeva (1500–1610), author of Yuktibhāṣā. Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri (AD 1500–1610) Achyuta Pisharati (1550–1621), mathematician and astronomer. Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri ...
India. ISBN. 978-8120801646. OCLC. 217058562. Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Indian Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha and first published in 1965. It contains a list of mathematical techniques which were falsely claimed to contain advanced mathematical knowledge. [ 1 ] The book was posthumously published under its deceptive title by ...
1881. The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near Peshawar in present-day Pakistan, historical Gandhara). It is perhaps "the oldest extant manuscript in Indian mathematics ". [4] For some portions a carbon-date was proposed of AD 224–383 ...
Sridhara. Śrīdhara or Śrīdharācārya (8th–9th century) was an Indian mathematician, known for two extant treatises about arithmetic and practical mathematics, Pāṭīgaṇita and Pāṭīgaṇita-sāra, and a now-lost treatise about algebra, Bījagaṇita.