Greatest Indian mathematician

Tell us more about everyone of them Master,please!

Aryabhata, Brahmagupta and Madhava of Sangamagrama were probably the greatest mathematicians in Indian history.

There is no doubt that Aryabhata of north India and Madhava of south India

Originally posted by Baal Melqart Perhaps if we could hear more about the other mathematicians it would be easier for us to judge.

Bhaskara II is the Father of Calculus .He invented the basics of Differentiation and Integration. He stated the law of Gravitation 400 years before Newton. Note that Brahmagupta also stated it around 650 AD

Both Calculus and Gravitation are wrongly attributed to Newton.  Newton applied calculus to analytically derive it.  But Bhaskara had already Unified Mathematics and Physics when he calculated the instantaneous velocities of planets ---a major leap in the history of science.

His Lilavati was translated by Al Khwarizmi (I dont know the spelling) . AND MOST UNFORGIVABLY HE IS CALLED THE FATHER OF ALGEBRA

From a paper of CK Raju I once read but cant remember which ...

" Brahmagupta’s Brahma Sphuta Siddhanta (650 AD)was translated into Arabic in 773 and was subsequently translated into Latin in 1126. In Europe, the equation 61x2 + 1 = y2 was “independently rediscovered” in 1727 by Leonhard Euler, while the general solution to Pell's equation was found much later by Joseph Louis Lagrange in 1767. Meanwhile, many centuries ago, the general solution to Pell's equation was recorded by Bhaskara II in 1150, using a modified version of Brahmagupta's chakravala method. Bhaskara also found solutions to other indeterminate quadratic, cubic, quartic, and higher-order polynomial equations. Narayana Pandit further improved on the chakravala method and found more general solutions to other indeterminate quadratic and higher-order polynomial equations......"

So Bhaskara has the following titles...

Father of Analytical science
Father of Differential calculus
Father of Gravitation
Father of Mathematical Physics.


The results in Bhaskaras work start miraculously appearing in the works of many like Fermat, Newton, Leibniz, Gregory etc.

Madhava continued Bhaskaras work . He perfected Calculus and his works were translated and taken to Europe by Jesuit missionaries in Kerala  and starts getting claimed by atleast 5 European mathematicians including Newton .

Newton vs Madhava is propably the most heated debate in the history of Science. It can be resolved only if those original documents are brought out of Paris. There is intense nationalism involved on both sides when it comes to this.

Aryabhatta is a sort of Father figure for Bharata mathematicians. All of them--Brahmagupta, Bhaskara and Madhava considered themselves as continuing his work


Aryabhatta is the undisputable father of Algebra . And I dare argue that he lived way back in 2700 BC

Pingala invented the binary code and such logical constructs like the Pascals triangle and the fibonacci series--(Both which reached Fibonacci and Pascal through the Brahmasputasiddhanta). Also his contribution in probability theory are impressive.


And I am tired of typing....


Edited by SuryaVajra - 04-Jun-2013 at 00:14