Indian Mathematicians

 

Famous Indian Mathematicians and their Contributions

1. Bhaskara

• He is also known as Bhaskaracharya.
• He was born in 1114.
• He was the one who acknowledged that any number divided by zero is infinity and that the sum of any number and infinity is also infinity.
• The famous book “Siddhanta Siromani” was written by him.

2. Aryabhata

• He was born in 476 CE at Kusumapura.
• He was regarded as the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age.
• Aryabhaṭiya and Arya-Siddhanta were his known works.
• He worked on the ‘place value system’ using letters to signify numbers and stating qualities.
• He discovered the position of the 9 planets and found that these planets revolve around the sun.
• He also described the number of days in a year to be 365.