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Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy

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Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy (1894-1960) was a professor of mathematics at Madras University. He contributed extensively to point-set topology, and wrote a well-known textbook on the subject, "Set Topology", which was published by Dover Publications in 1947, and reprinted in 1999.[1]

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1924.

Selected publications

  • Vaidyanathaswamy, R (1930). "A Theorem on the Rational Norm Curve". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 5 (4): 249–253. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-5.4.249. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
  • Vaidyanathaswamy, R (1958). "The algebra of cubic residues". Journal of Indian Mathematical Society. 21: 57–66. Retrieved 2007-05-29.