Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy
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Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy (1894–1960) was an Indian mathematician who wrote the first textbook of point-set topology in India.
Life
He was born on 24 October 1894.[1]
Vaidyanathaswamy studied at the University of Edinburgh with E. T. Whittaker and worked at the University of Cambridge with H. F. Baker. After his return to India, he was a professor at the University of Madras, and after his retirement was associated with the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta.
He contributed extensively to point-set topology, and wrote a well-known textbook on the subject (and the first such textbook published in India), "Set Topology", which was first published in 1947. A second edition, published in 1960, was reprinted by Dover Publications in 1999.[1]
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1924.[2] His proposers were Herbert Westren Turnbull, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Ralph Allan Sampson and James Hartley Ashworth.[3]
He was president of the Indian Mathematical Society from 1940 to 1942.[4][5]
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 29 May 2007.
- Vaidyanathaswamy, R (1958). "The algebra of cubic residues" (– Scholar search). Journal of Indian Mathematical Society. 21: 57–66. Retrieved 29 May 2007.
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References
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/FRSE.html
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ http://www.indianmathsociety.org.in/
- ^ http://www.unom.ac.in/index.php?route=department/department/about&deptid=48
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