1st MATHEMATICIAN

Baudhāyana,
was an Indian
mathematician, who was most likely also a priest. He is noted as the author of
the earliest
Sulba Sutra —
appendices to the Vedas
giving rules for the construction of
altars —
called the Baudhāyana
Śulbasûtra , which contained
several important
mathematical results. He is
older than other famous mathematician Apastambha.
He belongs to Yajurveda
school.He is accredited with
calculating the value of pi to some degree of
precision, and with
investigating what is now known as the Pythagorean
theorem.

what is known as pythagoreus theorem was actually found by Baudhayana,but pythagoreus stolen that from india and theorem became pythagoren theorem