Mathematicians
Places
Contributions
Dates
Miscellaneous
100
Author of one of the earliest Sulvasutras

Baudhayana

100

A system of weights and measures were used here

Indus Valley Civilization

100

Most important and noteworthy contribution

The Number Zero

100

The earliest records of mathematics in India were from this date

3000 BCE

100

The Pythagorean Theorem is credited to somebody from this country instead of the credits given to the Baudhayana Sulvasutras

Greece

200

Wrote the Aryabhatiya

Aryabhatta
200

Buddha was not born in India but in this neighboring country

Nepal

200

Our Hindu-Arabic number system are derived from these numerals

Brahmi Numerals

200

Was Baudhayana born during BCE or CE

BCE

200

The Sulvasutras were mainly written to inform people of how to do this

Construct religious altars

300

A major concept was stolen from this mathematician who wrote the Chandaḥśāstra

Pingala

300

Pingala's discovery of the Fibonacci Sequence was instead credited to somebody from this country

Italy

300

Aryabhatta gave an approximation of Pi to how many decimal places?

Four decimal places

300

Madhava was born in this year

1340 CE

300

This mathematician gave a formula for solving quadratic equations that we have used before

Brahmagupta

400

Refined many works of Aryabhata and Brahmagupta

Bhaskaracharya

400

Aryabhatta was born here

(two possible answers)

Kusumapura

or Bihar

400

Pingala came across this concept on accident while studying the Vedas

Binary Number System

400

The date, 300 BCE, corresponds to when this was introduced

Brahmi Numerals

400

The Pell's equation was studied by these two mathematicians

(Both answers must be given)

Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya

500
First to define the number zero

Brahmagupta

500

An inscription was found on a temple wall containing the number zero in this city in Madhya Pradesh

Gwalior

500

Major Contribution of Srinivasa Ramanujan

(only one answer)

Partition of Numbers in Summands p(n)

500

The number zero was first defined by Brahmagupta in this year

628 CE

500

The Brahmi Numerals evolved into these two numerals that were listed in the presentation

Gupta Numerals to Devanagari Numerals