Famous People with Name Somayaji

Kelallur Neelakandhan Somayaji            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Kelallur Neelakandhan Somayaji: was one of the foremost astronomers in Kerala. Known popularly as Kelallur Chomaathiri, he is considered an equal to Vatasseri Parameshwaran Nambudiri.His most important work is Thanthra Samgraham (a treatise on Mathematics and Astronomy) of eight chapters with 432 verses, written in six days from Meenam 26 of 676 ME to Medam 1 the same year. Two commentaries were written on this work, Yukthi Bhaasha (in Malayalam) by Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri and Yukthi Deepika by Sankara Varier.

Nilakantha Somayaji            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Nilakantha Somayaji: was a major Indian mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics and was a student of Damodara. Later, he lived in Tryambakeshwar. Among his many influential books, he wrote the comprehensive astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha in 1501. He also wrote the Aryabhatiya Bhasya, which contains work on infinite series expansions, problems of algebra, spherical geometry, and many results of calculus. Grahapareeksakrama is a manual on making observations in astronomy based on instruments of the time.