Tirukkannapuram vijayaraghavan biography of alberta

Indian mathematician (1902-1955)

Thirukannapuram Vijayaraghavan
Born	(1902-11-30)30 November 1902
Died	20 April 1955(1955-04-20) (aged 52)
Occupation	mathematician

Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (Tamil: திருக்கண்ணபுரம் விஜயராகவன்; 30 November 1902 – 20 April 1955) was an Indian mathematician from the Madras region.

He worked with G. H. Hardy when he went to Oxford in mid-1920s on Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers. He was a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences elected in the year 1934.

Overview: Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (Tamil: திருக்கண்ணபுரம் விஜயராகவன்; 30 November 1902 – 20 April 1955) was an Indian mathematician from the Madras region.

207 Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (1902–1955), professor at Andrha University and Director of the Ramanujan Institute in Madras.

(Agra and Alberta), D.Sc.

His father was a pandit.

Vijayaraghavan was well versed in Sanskrit and Tamil. He was a close friend of André Weil. Weil hired him in 1930 despite his lack of diploma, and they served together in Aligarh Muslim University.^[1] While Weil was away in Europe, Ross Masood planned to replace Weil's professorship with Vijayaraghavan, but Vijayaraghavan quit in protest and moved to the University of Dhaka.^[2]

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