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Added entries of a few ancient Indian mathematicians who did cool things centuries ago.
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crosbymichael committed Jul 7, 2015
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// Maria Ardinghelli - Italian translator, mathematician and physicist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ardinghelli
"ardinghelli",

// Aryabhata - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer during 476-550 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata
"aryabhata",

// Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage.
"babbage",

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// Alexander Graham Bell - an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
"bell",

// Bhaskara II - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer whose work on calculus predates Newton and Leibniz by over half a millenium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II#Calculus
"bhaskara",

// Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a medical degree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell
"blackwell",

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// Satyendra Nath Bose - He provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose
"bose",

// Brahmagupta - Ancient Indian mathematician during 598-670 CE who gave rules to compute with zero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero
"brahmagupta",

// Emmett Brown invented time travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown (thanks Brian Goff)
"brown",

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// Auguste and Louis Lumière - the first filmmakers in history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re
"lumiere",

// Mahavira - Ancient Indian mathematician during 9th century AD who discovered basic algebraic identities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81v%C4%ABra_(mathematician)
"mahavira",

// Maria Mayer - American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mayer
"mayer",

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// Alfred Nobel - a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (inventor of dynamite) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
"nobel",

// Panini - Ancient Indian linguist and grammarian from 4th century CE who worked on the world's first formal system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini#Comparison_with_modern_formal_systems
"panini",

// Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
"payne",

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// Alan Turing was a founding father of computer science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing.
"turing",

// Varahamihira - Ancient Indian mathematician who discovered trigonometric formulae during 505-587 CE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%C4%81hamihira#Contributions
"varahamihira",

// Sophie Wilson designed the first Acorn Micro-Computer and the instruction set for ARM processors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
"wilson",

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