Aryabhata

He was born in 476 CE in present day Patna. He was a great mathematician and astronomer. He worked on using letters to signify numbers ad stating qualities. He was the one who discovered the position of nine planets, and that they revolve around the sun. He also discovered the number of days in a year.

Brahmagupta

Brahmaguptawas born in 598 CE. He wrote two books named ‘Doctrine of Brahma’ and ‘Edible Bite’. He was the one who introduced the number zero to mathematics which stood for nothing.

SrinivasaRamanujan

He was born in 1887 and lived during the British rule. His contributions include Hardy-Ramanujan-Littlewood circle method in number theory, algebra of inequalities, continued fractions, partial sums and many more.

P.C. Mahalanobis

Mahalanobis is the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute and National Sample Surveys for which he gained international recognition too.

C.R. Rao

He was born in 1920 and was a mathematician, statistician and a naturalised American. He is a well-known statistician and is known for his ‘theory of estimation’.

D.R. Kaprekar

He discovered several results in number theory and is well known in recreational mathematics circle.

Harish Chandra

Harish Chandra was born in 1923, and is very well known for his infinite dimensional group representation theory. He died at the age of 60 in 1983 in New Jersey, United States.

Satyendranath Bose

He is well known for his collaboration with Einstein and has worked on quantum numbers.

Bhaskara

Bhaskara 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.

NarendraKarmarkar

Narendra Karmarkar discovered a polynomial-time algorithm, the interior point method.

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