The most famous of them all was Kelallur Nilakantha Somayaji (1444 - 1545), author of several treatises on astronomy including his magnum opus Tantrasamgraha.
[2][3] Jyeṣṭhadeva (c.1500 – c.1575), author of Yuktibhasa, was a Nambudiri belonging to the Parangngottu family which still exists in the vicinity of Trikkandiyur.
Firstly, it is a technical book on astronomy and mathematics composed completely in the local language, pure and simple Malayalam.
Nilakantha Somayaji's student Sankara Variar (c.1500 - c.1560) was also a prominent member of the Kerala school who flourished in Thrikkandiyoor even though his family was employed in the service of a temple at Thrikkutaveli near Ottappalam.
The greatest of them all was Madhava of Sangamagrama (c.1340 - c.1425) who is believed to have lived in Kudallur, a village about 25 km south-east of Thrikkandiyur.
Parameshvara Nambudiri (1380 – 1460), the promulgator of the Drgganita system of astronomical computations hailed from Alathiyur, a village about 6 km from Thrikkandiyoor.