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Kātyāyana

200 BC - 159 BC

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Kātyāyana (कात्यायन) also spelled as Katyayana (c. 3rd century BCE) was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kātyāyana has received more than 191,264 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kātyāyana is the 646th most popular mathematician (up from 677th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from India and the 12th most popular Indian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Kātyāyana ranks 646 out of 1,004. Before him are Georg Stiernhielm, Vera T. Sós, Claude Chevalley, Ludwig Bieberbach, David Gregory, and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt. After him are Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Efim Zelmanov, Fritz Noether, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, and Charles Dupin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 200 BC, Kātyāyana ranks 80. Before him are Heliocles I, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Lucius Aurelius Cotta, Titus Didius, Eucratides II, and Publius Rutilius Lupus. After him are Aulus Postumius Albinus, Sames II Theosebes Dikaios, Aristobulus of Alexandria, Laodice, Lucius Cornelius Merula, and Antimachus I. Among people deceased in 159 BC, Kātyāyana ranks 6. Before him are Terence, Eumenes II, Artaxias I, Pharnaces I of Pontus, and Sauromaces I of Iberia.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kātyāyana ranks 531 out of 1,861. Before him are Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918), Boney Kapoor (1955), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Alivardi Khan (1671), Sabu Dastagir (1924), and Jyoti Basu (1914). After him are Amjad Khan (1940), Krishan Chander (1914), Mohan Bhagwat (1950), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (1959), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), and Nirmal Verma (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Kātyāyana ranks 12. Before him are Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Bhāskara I (600), Jai Singh II (1688), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and Harish-Chandra (1923). After him are Sulochana Gadgil (1944), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), and Bhama Srinivasan (1935).

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