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GREAT INDIAN MATHS WIZARDS
ARYABHATA
476 - 550Aryabhata, the inventor of zero, was one of India’s earliest great ancient mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
BRAHMAGUPTA
598 - 668Brahmagupta, the 7th century mathematician and astronomer had made great contributions in number theory and algebra.
BHASKARA I
600 - 680Bhaskara I was a 7th century astronomer and mathematician who had worked on Aryabhata’s concepts on trigonometry and astronomy.
BHASKARA II
1114 - 1185Bhaskara II, the 12th century mathematician is known for ‘Siddhanta Shiromani’, differential co-efficient and differential calculus.
MADHAVA OF SANGAMAGRAMA
1340-1425Madhava of Sangamagrama, the 14th century mathematician and astronomer had immense contributions in calculus and trigonometry.
NILAKANTHA SOMAYAJI
1444 - 1544Nilakantha Somayaji, the 15th-16th century mathematician and astronomer is known for his work on trigonometry and infinite series.
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
1887 - 1920Srinivasa Ramanujan, in his short life of 33 years had developed more than 4000 theorems, many of which were proven true later.
D R KAPREKAR
1905 - 1986D R Kaprekar, the self-learned passionate mathematician is known for his theory – Kaprekar Constant and Kaprekar Numbers.
C R RAO
1920 - 2023C R Rao, the mathematician who had revolutionized statistics and data analytics is known for Cramer-Rao and Cramer-Blackwell theorem.
K S CHANDRASEKHARAN
1920 - 2017K S Chandrasekharan, the mathematician instrumental in establishing TIFR, had significant contributions on number theory and summability.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
1929 - 2013Shakuntala Devi, had incredible complex mental arithmetic calculation skills, for which she was called the mathematics wizard.
SHREERAM SHANKAR ABHYANKAR
1930 - 2012Sreeram Shankar Abhyankar, who had unique contribution to algebraic geometry and singularity theory, is best known for Abhyankar’s Conjecture.
C S SESHADRI
1932 - 2020C S Seshadri, founder of Chennai Mathematical Institute, is recognized for ‘Seshadri constant’ and ‘Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem’.
M S NARASIMHAN
1932 - PresentM S Narasimhan, who had remarkable contributions in differential and algebraic geometry, is known for Narasimham-Seshadri theorem.
V S VARADARAJAN
1937 - 2019V S Varadarajan had significant contributions in Lie groups, probability theory, quantum mechanics, differential equations and supersymmetry.
S R SRINIVASA VARADHAN
1940 - PresentS R Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, is renowned for his contributions to probability theory and for creating a unified theory of large deviations.
MOHAN GANESALINGAM
1980 - PresentMohan Ganesalingam is a mathematician and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in the intersection of mathematics and AI.
MANJUL BHARGAVA
1974 - PresentManjul Bhargava was conferred the Fields Medal in 2014 for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers.
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