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Indian Mathematical Society(IMS) is the oldest organization in Indiadevoted to the promotion of study and research in mathematics. The Society was founded in April 1907 by V. Ramaswami Aiyarwith its headquarters at Pune. The Society started its activities under the tentatively proposed name Analytic Cluband the name was soon changed to Indian ...
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.
V. Ramaswamy Aiyer. V. Ramaswamy Aiyer (4 August 1871 – 22 January 1936) was a civil servant in the Madras Provincial Service. In 1907, along with a group of friends, he founded the Indian Mathematical Society with headquarters in Pune.
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 ...
Hardinge Professor of Mathematics. Ganesh Prasad (15 November 1876 – 9 March 1935) was an Indian mathematician who specialised in the theory of potentials, theory of functions of a real variable, Fourier series and the theory of surfaces. He was trained at the Universities of Cambridge and Göttingen and on return to India he helped develop ...
The Man Who Knew Infinity. The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 2015 British biographical drama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to ...
Gupta was elected a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 1950. He became head of the Panjab University's new department of mathematics in 1954. He served as president of the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) for the term 1963–4. [2] He retired as director of the Centre of Advanced Study in Mathematics in 1966, by which time ...