George Gheverghese Joseph was born in Kerala, India.
G. G. Joseph studied and conducted researches in applied mathematics and statistics, including multivariate analysis, mathematical programming, and demography.
He is conducting three-month research on the history of mathematics in his native place every year.
Through his research and the best selling book The Crest of the Peacock, he argued that the infinite series was invented by Kerala mathematicians in 1350, before Europeans.
This work garnered publicity and generated discussions in the history of maths on the discoveries made by Indians that predated the Europeans.