The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus valley civilization and the Vedas to Modern times.
Indian mathematicians have made a number of significant contributions to mathematics including place-value arithmetical notation and the concept of zero.
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Vedic
- Apastamba
- Baudhayana
- Katyayana
- Manava
- Panini, ca. 5th c. BC, Algebraic grammarian
- Yajnavalkya, credited with authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana, which contains calculations related to altar construction.
Classical
Post-Vedic Sanskrit to Pala period mathematicians (5th c. BC to 11th c. AD)
- Aryabhata - Astronomer who gave accurate calculations for astronomical constants, 476-520
- Aryabhata II
- Bhaskara I
- Bhaskara II
- Brahmagupta - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic
- Mahavira
- Matanga Muni - Combinatorics in music
- Varahamihira
- Shridhara (between 650-850) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.
Medieval to Mughal period
13th century to 1800.13th century, Logician, mithila school
- Pakshadhara, son of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
- Shankara Mishra, Logician, Mithila school
- Narayana Pandit
- Madhava of Sangamagramasome elements of Calculus
- Parameshvara (1360-1455), discovered drk-ganita, a mode of astronomy based on observations, Madhava's Kerala school
- Nilakantha Somayaji,1444-1545 - Mathematician and Astronomer, Madhava's Kerala school
- Mahendra Suri (14th century)
- Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
- Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, 1450-1525, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Raghunatha Shiromani, (1475-1550), Logician, Navadvipa school
- Jyeshtadeva , 1500-1610, Author of Yuktibhasa, Madhava's Kerala school
- Achyuta Pisharati, 1550-1621, Astronomer/mathematician, Madhava's Kerala school
- Mathuranatha Tarkavagisha, c. 1575, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Jagadisha Tarkalankara, c. 1625, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Gadadhara Bhattacharya, c. 1650, Logician, Navadvipa school
- Munishvara (17th century)
- Kamalakara (1657)
- Jagannatha Samrat (1730)
Born in 1800s
- Ramchundra (1821 - 1880)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
- A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892-1953)
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972)
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974)
- Sanjeev Shah (1803- 1896)
- Raghunath Purushottam Paranjape
Born in 1900s
- Vijay Manohar (1901-1987)
- S. N. Roy (1906-1966)
- Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
- D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri
- Harish-Chandra (1920-1983)
- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (1920-)
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930-)
- Ramdas Lotu Bhirud(1937-1997)
- Raghvendra Singh(1974-)
- K. S. S. Nambooripad
- Jayant Narlikar (1938-)
- Srinivasa Varadhan (1940-)
- Vijay Kumar Patodi (1945-1976)
- Narendra Karmarkar (1957-)
- Mathukumalli V. Subbarao (1921-2006)
- Navin M. Singhi
- S. S. Shrikhande
- Raj Chandra Bose
- Canjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri
- Narasimhan, M. S.
- Parthasarathy, K. R.
- C. P. Ramanujam
- Raghavan Narsimhan
- Ramanan, S.
- Raghunathan, M. S.
- Madhav Nori
- Manindra Agrawal (1966-)
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