Avadhesh Narayan Singh (Benares, 1901 – July 10, 1954) was an Indian mathematician and historian of mathematics.
He received his DSc in mathematics from the University of Calcutta in 1929 for his dissertation titled "Derivation and Non-Differentiable functions".
In the 1930s he wrote a history of Indian mathematics with Bibhutibhushan Datta, which became a standard work.
He also published the following two books:[2] Volume 3 of the "History of Hindu Mathematics" was edited by Kripa Shankar Shukla and published in several papers in the Indian Journal of History of Science (Vol.
These edited papers are available in the Studies in Indian Mathematics and Astronomy (Selected Articles of Kripa Shankar Shukla).