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Madhava of Sangamagrama

1350 - 1425

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Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (Mādhavan) (c. 1340 – c. 1425) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who is considered to be the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in the Late Middle Ages. Madhava made pioneering contributions to the study of infinite series, calculus, trigonometry, geometry and algebra. He was the first to use infinite series approximations for a range of trigonometric functions, which has been called the "decisive step onward from the finite procedures of ancient mathematics to treat their limit-passage to infinity". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Madhava of Sangamagrama is the 120th most popular mathematician (up from 359th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from India (up from 290th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Madhava of Sangamagrama ranks 120 out of 1,004. Before him are George Green, Leonid Kantorovich, Alexander Friedmann, William Oughtred, Gabriel Cramer, and Christopher Clavius. After him are Isaac Barrow, G. H. Hardy, Nicomachus, Brook Taylor, Jean-Victor Poncelet, and Hippocrates of Chios.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1350, Madhava of Sangamagrama ranks 8. Before him are John of Nepomuk, Manuel II Palaiologos, Miloš Obilić, Malhun Hatun, Vincent Ferrer, and Dmitry Donskoy. After him are Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, John I of Aragon, Pierre d'Ailly, Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria, Anna of Trebizond, and Anabella Drummond. Among people deceased in 1425, Madhava of Sangamagrama ranks 4. Before him are Nicolas Flamel, Manuel II Palaiologos, and Hongxi Emperor. After him are Vasily I of Moscow, Charles III of Navarre, Jean de Béthencourt, Lorenzo Monaco, Catherine of Burgundy, Bonne of Artois, John III, Duke of Bavaria, and Ashikaga Yoshikazu.

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In India

Among people born in India, Madhava of Sangamagrama ranks 102 out of 1,861. Before him are Sri Aurobindo (1872), Meera (1498), N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Mahākāśyapa (-550), and Harsha (590). After him are Premchand (1880), Janaki Ammal (1897), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Satyajit Ray (1921), and Dayananda Saraswati (1824).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Madhava of Sangamagrama ranks 5. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Brahmagupta (598), Bhāskara II (1114), and Augustus De Morgan (1806). After him are S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Bhāskara I (600), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jai Singh II (1688), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940).

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