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Ananda Rau | |
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Born | |
Died | 22 January 1966 | (aged 72)
Alma mater | Presidency College, Madras |
Known for | summability of series, theory of functions of a complex variable and sums of an even number of squares |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Presidency College, Madras |
Doctoral advisor | Godfrey Harold Hardy |
K. Ananda Rau (21 September 1893 – 22 January 1966) was an eminent Indian mathematician and a contemporary of Ramanujan.[1] Though Rau was six years junior to Ramanujan, his mathematical trajectory, unlike Ramanujan's, was very much a conventional one and he had decided to pursue a career in mathematics well before Ramanujan's prowess became known.[2]