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My top 10 list:

1.Aryabhatta (Place value system and zero, Approximation of π(pi) and denoting its irratinal nature, formula for area of triangle, concept of sine, cosine etc, summation of series of squares, cubes), indeterminate equations in his book aryabhattiya

2. Bhaskaracharya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II

3. Bouddhayan (original discoveror of the pythagorus theorem)

4. Brahmagupta(gave rules to compute with 0)

5. Shridharachharya (proposed quadratic equation roots, gave rules for finding volume of sphere)

6. Srinivas ramanujan (his cryptic formula is still of relevance)

7.Panini

8. Varahmihir (given trignometic equations :( sin2x+ cos2x=1 etc)

9.K. S. Chandrashekharan (worked on number theory and summability)

10. The great Vashishtha Narayan Singh (worked on REPRODUCING KERNELS AND OPERATORS WITH A CYCLIC VECTOR, Ex-NASA mathematician)

Note: 60% of these mathematicians are from the Gangetic Belts of India.

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