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Pingala

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Acharya Pingala (Sanskrit: पिङ्गल, romanized: Piṅgala; c. 3rd–2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the Chandaḥśāstra (Sanskrit: छन्दःशास्त्र, lit. 'A Treatise on Prosody'), also called the Pingala-sutras (Sanskrit: पिङ्गलसूत्राः, romanized: Piṅgalasūtrāḥ, lit. 'Pingala's Threads of Knowledge'), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pingala has received more than 545,897 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Pingala is the 619th most popular mathematician (down from 538th in 2019).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pingala ranks 619 out of 1,004Before her are Carl Adam Petri, Jan Śniadecki, Olga Taussky-Todd, Michael Artin, Jean Bourgain, and Robert Langlands. After her are William Burnside, Edward Arthur Milne, William Whiston, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī, Georg Mohr, and Robert Axelrod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 150 BC, Pingala ranks 40Before her are Ptolemy of Cyprus, Appius Claudius Pulcher, Artaxias I of Iberia, Lucius Marcius Philippus, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, and Marcus Aurelius Cotta. After her are Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla, Gaius Sextius Calvinus, Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia, Manius Aquillius, Quintus Marcius Rex, and Marcus Octavius.

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