Top 10 Indian Mathematicians & their inventions

     From making purchases to allocating your monthly pocket money to measuring quantities while cooking, all of us use math in our day-to-day activities even without realizing it. Have you ever wondered how these magical mathematical concepts have arrived & who are the people behind their invention?

                                                                       

                                                                       ARYABHATA

Aryabhata was the first person to say that the Earth is spherical and it revolves around the sun & stated the correct number of days in a year that is 365. He also gave the formula (a + b) ² = a² + b² + 2ab. Further, he worked on the place value system using letters to signify numbers and stating qualities.

 

   BRAHMAGUPTA

Introduction of zero (0) to mathematics, which stood for “nothing”, was the biggest contribution of Brahmagupta. He also explained how to find the cube and cube-root of an integer and gave rules facilitating the computation of squares and square roots.

 

                                                                           

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses. He made substantial contributions to Hardy-Ramanujan Littlewood circle method in number theory and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, partial sums, products of hypergeometric series and infinite series.

 

 

P.C. MAHALANOBIS

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis’s most significant contribution in the field of statistics was the Mahalanobis Distance. Besides these, he had also made pioneering studies in the field of anthropometry and had founded the Indian Statistical Institute. He also contributed to the design of large scale sample surveys in India.

C.R. RAO

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, popularly known as C. R Rao is a well-known statistician, famous for his “theory of estimation”. His contributions to statistical theory and applications are well known, and many of his results, which bear his name, are included in the curriculum of courses in statistics at bachelor’s and master’s level all over the world.

BHASKARA

Bhaskara, an Indian astronomer, and mathematician helped to disseminate the mathematical work of Aryabhata. He was the one who declared that any number divided by zero is infinity and that the sum of any number and infinity is also infinity. He is also famous for his book “Siddhanta Siromani”.

                                         NARENDRA KARMARKAR 

Karmarkar’s algorithm is an algorithm introduced by Narendra Karmarkar in 1984 for solving linear programming problems. He is also listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.Apart from the above mentioned, there are many other famous Indian mathematicians who contributed to the origin of mathematics. They have made several contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era.