People also know Mahavira as a great mathematician

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Sorry the person was someone else and not our 24th Tirthankar.

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Nice infoā€¦

Just wondering from where did they manage to locate MahāvÄ«ra at 850 A.D. Itā€™s fine if itā€™s B.C. but seems difficult to infer that as the dates of all the other scholars are in A.D.

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Sorry, I didnā€™t notice that. Actually, I didnā€™t know what B.C. and A.D. actually mean till now. But just learned about them.

Even if it would have been B.C., It wouldnā€™t make sense.
Maybe it was somebody else named ā€œMahaviraā€ which historians mistook as our 24th Tirthankar, or maybe the Mahavira would have been a Jain too, but not our 24th Tirthankar.

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Yes, they are not talking about our 24th Teerthankar Mahavira. There happened to be a different 9th Century Mathematician named Mahavira.
And yes, he was Jain.

Hereā€™s the wikipedia link for more info :
Mahavira : Mathematician

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@Sowmay @jinesh @Aniteshj
I have deleted the answer as the person was someone else whom I thought as Lord Mahavira.
Sorry for giving you wrong information unintentionally.

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