Maharshi Parāśara

Parāśara was a maharshi and the author of many ancient Indian texts. He is accredited as the author of the first Purana, the Vishnu Purana, before his son Vyasa wrote it in its present form. He was the grandson of Vasishtha, the son of Śakti Maharṣi. Full name: Parashara Books: Krishi-Parashara, Vr̥kṣāyurveda of Parāśara Parents: Maharsi Sakti, Adrsyati Maharshi Parashara is a well-kn.....

Brahmagupta

Brahmagupta was an Indian mathematician and astronomer.He made advances in astronomy and most importantly in number systems including algorithms for square roots and the solution of quadratic equations. Born: 590 AD, Bhinmala, Rajasthan, India, ruled by the Gurjara dynasty. Died: 668 AD, India Brahmagupta, one of the most accomplished of the ancient Indian astronomers. He is the author of two .....

Aryabhatta

Āryabhaṭa was an Indian mathematician and astronomer, and the author of the Maha-Siddhanta. The numeral II is given to him to distinguish him from the earlier and more influential Āryabhaṭa I. Āryabhaṭa was an Indian mathematician and astronomer, and the author of the Maha-Siddhanta,written in Sanskrit, the work that deals with topics related to mathematical astronomy. He constructed tab.....

Bhaskaracharya

The leading mathematician of the 12th century, who wrote the first work with full and systematic use of the decimal number system. Bhaskaracharya's father was a Brahman named Mahesvara. Mahesvara himself was famed as an astrologer. This happened frequently in Indian society with generations of a family being excellent mathematicians and often acting as teachers to other family members. Bhaskarach.....

Bhāskara

Bhāskara (commonly called Bhaskara I was a 7th-century mathematician and astronomer, who was the first to write numbers in the Hindu decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work.This commentary, Āryabhaṭīyabhāṣya, written in 629 CE, is among the oldest known prose works in S.....

Varahamihira

Varahamihira, Indian sage who predicted water discovery on Mars 1500 years ago. Indian astronomer, mathematician and astrologer from Ujjain, Varahamihira in his book , written 1500 years ago had mentioned so many insights about space and universe that has shocked the scientists of today. One treatise which Varahamihira summarises was the Romaka-Siddhanta which itself was based on the epicycle the.....

Kanada

Kanada, also known as Kashyapa, Ulūka, Kananda and Kanabhuk, was an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy that also represents the earliest Indian physics. Kanada Philosopher Kanada, also known as Kashyapa, Ulūka, Kananda and Kanabhuk, was an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika school of.....

Aryabhata

Aryabhata, also called Aryabhata I or Aryabhata the Elder, an astronomer and the earliest Indian mathematician whose work and history are available to modern scholars. He is also known as Aryabhata I or Aryabhata the Elder to distinguish him from a 10th-century Indian mathematician of the same name. He flourished in Kusumapura—near Pataliputra (Patna), then the capital of the Gupta dynasty—whe.....

Pingala

Pingala Author Acharya Pingala was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the Chandaḥśāstra, the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody. The Chandaḥśāstra is a work of eight chapters in the late Sūtra style, not fully comprehensible without a commentary. It has been dated to the last few centuries BCE. Born: unclear, 3rd or 2nd century BCE Died: 100 AD Acharya P.....

Patanjali

Patanjali Author Patañjali was a sage in Ancient India, thought to be the author of a number of Sanskrit works. The greatest of these are the Yoga Sutras, a classical yoga text. Born: 200 BC Died: 150 BC Patanjali was a great spiritual leader of ancient times who refined the spirit of the spiritual path into the word of wisdom called Yoga Sutras. He defined the steps every soul must go through.....

Charaka

Charaka (sometimes spelled Caraka) (c 400-200 BC) is believed to be one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in ancient India. He is referred to as the Father of Medicine and the ayurvedic counterpart to Hippocrates. It is believed that Charaka was a resident of Kapisthala village in the Punjab, situated between the.....

Sushruta

Sushruta, or Suśruta was an ancient Indian physician and surgeon known today as the “Father of Surgery” and “Father of Plastic Surgery” or "father of brain surgery" for inventing and developing surgical procedures. Sushruta Indian physician Sushruta, or Suśruta was an ancient Indian physician and surgeon known today as the “Father of Surgery” and “Father of Plastic Surgery” or "f.....

Baudhāyana

Baudhayana (800 BC - 740 BC) is said to be the original Mathematician behind the Pythagoras theorem. Pythagoras' theorem was indeed known much before Pythagoras, and it was Indians who discovered it at least 1000 years before Pythagoras was born! The credit for authoring the earliest Sulba Sutras goes to him. Baudhayan was the first one ever to arrive at several concepts in Mathematics, which we.....

Veda Vyas

Krishna Dvaipayana, better known as Vyasa or Vedavyasa, was a legendary sage portrayed in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, and regarded by Hindu-tradition as the compiler of that work. Born: Kalpi Full name: Krishna Dvaipayana Veda Vyasa Parents: Satyavati, Parāśara Religiuon: Sanathana dharma, Hinduism Children: Shuka from Vatika, Dhritarashtra from Ambika, Pandu fro.....

Anil Agarwal

Anil Kumar Agarwal was an Indian environmentalist, trained as a mechanical engineer at IIT Kanpur, worked as a science correspondent for the Hindustan Times. He was the founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based research institute currently led by Sunita Narain. Anil Kumar Agarwal, an Indian journalist and scholar best known for his work as one of the country’s most promin.....

Laxman Nayak

Laxman Nayak or Laxman Naik was a tribal civil rights activist of South Odisha in eastern India. He belonged to Bhumia tribe of Odisha. Nayak, an Odia folk-hero of Koraput of southernmost part of Odisha and a cult-figure among its tribals, was born in Tentuliguma village of the Koraput district and his father Padlam Nayak was a tribal chief and 'Mustadaar' under 'Jeypore Samasthanam' in the then .....

Harley Earl

American automotive designer Harley Jarvis Earl was an American automotive designer and business executive. He was the initial designated head of design at General Motors, later becoming vice president, the first top executive ever appointed in design of a major corporation in American history. Harley Jefferson Earl, an industrial designer best known as the leading automotive stylist in the 20th-c.....

K. S. Chandrasekharan

Komaravolu Chandrasekharan was a professor at ETH Zurich and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his work in number theory and summability. Komaravolu Chandrasekharan was born and attended a District Board School in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, and then the High School at Bapatla, also in Guntur. He then obtained his M.A .....

Johan August Brinell

August Brinell was a Swedish Metallurgical Engineer. Brinell is noted as the creator of a method for quantifying the surface hardness of materials, now known as the Brinell hardness test. His name is also commemorated in the description of a failure mechanism of material surfaces known as Brinelling. The son of Johannes Månsson, a farmer, and Katarina Jonasdotter, Brinell graduated in 1871 from .....

Olive Dennis

Olive Wetzel Dennis was an engineer whose design innovations changed the nature of railway travel. Born in Thurlow, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Baltimore. Olive Dennis was the first woman to become a member of the American Railway Engineering Association. One of the first women to obtain a Civil Engineering degree from Cornell University, she found it difficult to find a meaningful job after her.....

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