Avadhesh Narayan Singh

Avadhesh Narayan Singh (* 1901 in Benares ; † July 10, 1954 ibid) was an Indian mathematician and mathematician.

Singh received a master's degree from Banaras Hindu University in his hometown (Varanasi was then Banaras or Benares), where he was a student of Ganesh Prasad , in 1924 , and received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Calcutta in 1929 (dissertation: Derivation and Non-Differentiable Functions). He then went to Lucknow University, where he became a reader in 1940 and a professor in 1943. There he opened a department of Hindu mathematics. He also reinvigorated the now- defunct Banaras Mathematical Society under the name Bharata Ganita Parisad .

In the 1930s he wrote Bibhutibhushan Datta, a history of Indian mathematics that became a standard work.

As a mathematician he dealt with non- differentiable functions (an example of a function that is non-differentiable everywhere is the Weierstrass function ).

Fonts

• The Theory and Construction of Non-Differentiable Functions, 1935
• with B. Datta: History of Indian mathematics. A source book , 2 volumes, Lahore (Motilal Banarsidass) 1935 ( online at archive.org) , 1938, Reprint Asia Publishing House 1962 in one volume
  • Volume 3 was edited by Kripa Shankar Shukla in several articles in Indian J. History Science (Volume 5, 1980 to Volume 28, 1993), Indian Geometry, Indian Journal of the History of Science, Volume 15, 1980, pp. 21-187 , Indian Trigonometry, Indian Journal of the History of Science, Volume 18, 1983, pp. 39-108

literature

• SD Sinvhal: Dr. Avadhesh Singh, in: Ganita, Volume 5, 1954, No. 2, pp. I-VII (with bibliography and portrait)
• Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 523