Sarvadaman Chowla

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Sarvadaman D. Chowla (22 October 1907, London–10 December 1995, Laramie, Wyoming) was a prominent British-Indian-American mathematician, specializing in number theory.

He was born in London, since his father, Gopal Chowla, a professor of mathematics in Lahore, was then studying in Cambridge. His family returned to India, where he received his masters degree in 1928 from the Government College in Lahore. In 1931 he received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he studied under J. E. Littlewood.

Chowla then returned to India, where he taught at several universities, becoming head of mathematics at Government College in 1936. During the difficulties arising from the partition of India in 1947, he left for the United States. There he visited the Institute for Advanced Study for a year or so, then taught at the University of Kansas and at the University of Colorado, before settling at Penn State in 1963, where he remained until his retirement in 1976. He was a member of the Indian National Science Academy and received the Padma Bhushan award.

Among his contributions are a number of results which bear his name. These include the Bruck-Chowla-Ryser theorem, the Ankeny-Artin-Chowla congruence, the Chowla-Mordell theorem, and the Chowla-Selberg formula.

[edit] Works

• S. Chowla, There exists an infinity of 3—combinations of primes in A. P., Proc. Lahore Philos. Soc. 6, (1944). no. 2, 15–16.
• James G. Huard and Kenneth S. Williams (edd.), The Collected Papers of Sarvadaman Chowla, Volumes I-III, (Montréal, 1999).

[edit] References

• Raymond C. Ayoub, James G. Huard, and Kenneth S. Williams, "Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 45, Number 5 (May 1998), electronic copy available at [1]

[edit] External links

• O'Connor, John J..; Edmund F. Robertson "Sarvadaman Chowla". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
• Sarvadaman Chowla at the Mathematics Genealogy Project