Pingala
Indian poet and mathematician
Acharya Pingala was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the Chandaḥśāstra, also called the Pingala-sutras, the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody.
The Chandaḥśāstra is a work of eight chapters in the late Sūtra... Wikipedia
Siblings: Pāṇini
Main interests: Sanskrit prosody, Indian mathematics, Sanskrit grammar
Notable ideas: mātrāmeru, binary numeral system