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. Hindu-Arabic numerals predominantly used today and likely into the future.

Ancient (Before 320 CE)

 * Baudhayana sutras (fl. c. 900 BCE)
 * Yajnavalkya (700 BCE)
 * Manava (fl. 750–650 BCE)
 * Apastamba Dharmasutra (c. 600 BCE)
 * Pāṇini (c. 520–460 BCE)
 * Kātyāyana (fl. c. 300 BCE)
 * Akṣapada Gautama(c. 600 BCE–200 CE)
 * Bharata Muni (200 BCE-200 CE)
 * Pingala (c. 3rd/2nd century BCE)
 * Bhadrabahu (367 – 298 BCE)
 * Umasvati (c. 200 CE)
 * Yavaneśvara (2nd century)
 * Vasishtha Siddhanta, 4th century CE

Classical (320 CE–520 CE)

 * Vasishtha Siddhanta, 4th century CE
 * Aryabhata (476–550 CE)
 * Yativrsabha (500–570)
 * Varahamihira (505–587 CE)
 * Yativṛṣabha, (6th-century CE)
 * Virahanka (6th century CE)

Early Medieval Period (521 CE–1206 CE)

 * Brahmagupta (598–670 CE)
 * Bhaskara I (600–680 CE)
 * Shridhara (between 650–850 CE)
 * Lalla (c. 720–790 CE)
 * Virasena (792–853 CE)
 * Govindasvāmi (c. 800 – c. 860 CE)
 * Prithudaka (c. 830 – c. 900CE)
 * Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa, (c. 840 – c. 900 CE)
 * Vaṭeśvara (born 880 CE)
 * Mahavira (9th century CE)
 * Jayadeva 9th century CE
 * Aryabhata II (920 – c. 1000)
 * Mañjula (astronomer) (born 932)
 * Vijayanandi (c. 940–1010)
 * Halayudha 10th Century
 * Śrīpati (1019–1066)
 * Abhayadeva Suri (1050 CE)
 * Brahmadeva (1060–1130)
 * Pavuluri Mallana (11th century CE)
 * Hemachandra (1087–1172 CE)
 * Bhaskara II (1114–1185 CE)
 * Someshvara III (1127–1138 CE)
 * Śārṅgadeva (1175-1247)

13th Century

 * Thakkar Pheru( 1291– 1347)

14th century

 * Mahendra Suri (1340 – 1400)
 * Keshava of Nandigrama (fl. 1496–1507)
 * Narayana Pandita (1325–1400)

Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School

 * Gangesha Upadhyaya (first half of the 14th century)

Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy

 * Madhava of Sangamagrama ( c.  1340 – c. 1425)
 * Parameshvara (1360–1455), discovered drek-ganita, a mode of astronomy based on observations
 * Puthumana Somayaji ( c. 1380–1460)

Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy

 * Chennas Narayanan Namboodiripad (born 1428)
 * Nilakantha Somayaji (1444–1545), mathematician and astronomer
 * Damodara (15th century)

Navya-Nyāya (Neo-Logical) School

 * Raghunatha Siromani (1475–1550)

16th Century

 * 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 (1560–1646/1666)

Golagrama school of astronomy

 * Nṛsiṃha (born 1586)
 * Mallari (fl.1575)

17th Century

 * Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580–1649)
 * Kṛṣṇa Daivajña (17th century)
 * Ataullah Rashidi (17th century)
 * Lutfullah Muhandis (17th century)
 * Munishvara (born 1603)
 * Mulla Jaunpuri (1606–1651)

Golagrama school of astronomy

 * Kamalakara (1616 – 1700)
 * Divākara (born 1606)

18th Century
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy
 * Jagannatha Samrat (1652–1744)
 * Jai Singh II (1681 – 1743)
 * Sankara Varman (1774–1839)

19th century
• Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870)

• Ramchandra (1821–1880)

• Pathani Samanta (1835–1904)

• Jadav Chandra Chakravarti (1855–1920)

• Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864–1924)

• Ganesh Prasad (1876–1935)

• Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha (1884–1960)

• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920)

• A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953)

• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972)

• Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi (1844–1897)

• Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya (1866-1937)

20th century

 * Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (1901–1950)
 * Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987)
 * Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (1902–1955)
 * Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar (1905–1986)
 * Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907-1966)
 * Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma (1907–1998)
 * Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995)
 * Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
 * Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram (1913–1968)
 * P Kesava Menon (1917–1979)
 * S. S. Shrikhande (1917–2020)
 * Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya (1918–2010)
 * Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978)
 * Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (1920–2023)
 * Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921–2006)
 * Harish-Chandra (1923–1983)
 * P. K. Srinivasan (1924–2005)
 * Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924–1997)
 * Madan Lal Puri (born 1929)
 * Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar(1930-2012)
 * C. S. Seshadri (1932–2020)
 * Daya-Nand Verma (1933–2010)
 * M. S. Narasimhan (1932–2021)
 * J. N. Srivastava (1933-2010)
 * Srinivasacharya Raghavan (1934–2014)
 * K. S. S. Nambooripad (1935–2020)
 * Ramaiyengar Sridharan (born 1935)
 * Vinod Johri (1935–2014)
 * Karamat Ali Karamat (1936–2022)
 * K. R. Parthasarathy (1936–2023)
 * S. N. Seshadri (1937–1986)
 * Ramdas L. Bhirud (1937–1997)
 * S. Ramanan (born 1937)
 * Pranab K. Sen (born 1937)
 * Veeravalli S. Varadarajan (1937–2019)
 * Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (1937–2017)
 * Raghavan Narasimhan (1937-2015)
 * C. P. Ramanujam (1938–1974)
 * V. N. Bhat (1938–2009)
 * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940)
 * M. S. Raghunathan (born 1941)
 * Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni (born 1942)
 * Vashishtha Narayan Singh (1942–2019)
 * C. R. Rao (1920–2023)
 * Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy (born 1941)
 * S. B. Rao (born 1943)
 * Phoolan Prasad (born 1944)
 * Gopal Prasad (born 1945)
 * Rajagopalan Parthasarathy (born 1945)
 * Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945–1976)
 * Vikram Bhagvandas Mehta (1946-2014)
 * S. G. Dani (born 1947)
 * Raman Parimala (born 1948)
 * Singhi Navin M. (born 1949)
 * Narayan Ch Ghosh (born 1949)
 * Sujatha Ramdorai
 * R. Balasubramanian (born 1951)
 * M. Ram Murty (born 1953)
 * Alok Bhargava (born 1954)
 * Madhav V. Nori (born 1954)
 * Rattan Chand (born 1955)
 * V. Kumar Murty (born 1956)
 * Rajendra Bhatia (born 1952)
 * Narendra Karmarkar (born 1957)
 * T. N. Venkataramana (born 1958)
 * Dipendra Prasad (born 1960)
 * Dinesh Thakur (born 1961)
 * Manindra Agrawal (born 1966)
 * Madhu Sudan (born 1966)
 * Suresh Venapally (born 1966)
 * Chandrashekhar Khare (born 1968)
 * U. S. R. Murty
 * Ramji Lal (born 1945)
 * L. Mahadevan
 * Kapil Hari Paranjape
 * Vijay Vazirani (born 1957)
 * Umesh Vazirani
 * Prasad V. Tetali (born 1964)
 * Mahan Mj (born 1968)
 * Rahul Pandharipande (born 1969)
 * Santosh Vempala (born 1971)
 * Kannan Soundararajan (born 1973)
 * Kiran Kedlaya (born 1974)
 * Manjul Bhargava (born 1974)
 * Ritabrata Munshi (born 1976)
 * Amit Garg (born 1978)
 * Subhash Khot (born 1978)
 * Sourav Chatterjee (born 1979)
 * Akshay Venkatesh (born 1981)
 * Sucharit Sarkar (born 1983)
 * Neena Gupta (born 1984)
 * Nayandeep Deka Baruah (born 1972)
 * Anand Kumar (born 1973)
 * Bhargav Bhatt (born 1983)