Indian Mathematicians
Aryabhata (476550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the
classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the ryabhaya and the Arya-siddhanta. The works of Aryabhata dealt with mainly mathematics and astronomy. He also worked on the approximation for pi.
Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (22 December 1887 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician
and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community, which was centred in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. Ramanujan was said to be a natural genius by the English mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss.[1] He died at the age of 32. Ramanujan was born at Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) in a Tamil Brahmin family of Thenkalai Iyengar sect.
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS (born 10 September 1920) is an Indian American
mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002. The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine." The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time.
Harish-Chandra FRS (11 October 1923 16 October 1983) was an Indian American
mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semi-simple Lie groups. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. and a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2] He was the recipient of the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society, in 1954. The Indian National Science Academy honoured him with the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal in 1974. In 1981, he received an honorary degree from Yale University. The Indian Government named the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, an institute dedicated to Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, after him.
C.S. Seshadri FRS (born 29 February 1932) is an eminent Indian mathematician. He is currently
Director-Emeritus of the Chennai Mathematical Institute, and is known for his work in algebraic geometry. The Seshadri constant is named after him. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Padma Bhushan in 2009, the third highest civilian honor in the country. Seshadri's main work is in algebraic geometry. His work with M S Narasimhan on unitary vector bundles and the NarasimhanSeshadri theorem has influenced the field a lot. His work on Geometric Invariant Theory and on Schubert varieties, in particular his introduction of standard monomial theory, is widely recognized. Seshadri's contributions include the inception of Chennai Mathematical Institute.
Komaravolu S. Chandrasekharan (born 21 November 1920) is a professor emeritus at
Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule Zrich and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Mr.Chandrasekharan completed his high school from Bapatla village in Guntur from Andhra Pradesh. He completed his M.A. in mathematics from the Presidency College, Chennai and a Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics, University of Madras in 1942. He is known for his work in number theory and summability and was given numerous awards including Padma Shri, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Ramanujan Medal, and Honorary fellow of TIFR.
