RK Rubugunday
Raghunath Krishna Rubugunday (* 1918 in Madras ; † 2000 ibid) was an Indian mathematician.
He was the nephew (on the father's side) of the mathematician K. Ananda Rau . Rubugunday studied at Presidency College in Madras with a bachelor's degree (with top grades) and completed the Tripos exams at Cambridge University in 1938 , in which he was Wrangler in the second part. Godfrey Harold Hardy was one of his teachers at Cambridge . Then he was back in India, where he taught at various universities and most recently headed the mathematics department at the University of Sagar (now Dr. Hari Singh Gour University).
Rubugunday is known for contributions to number theory and specifically to the Waring problem .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief biography in R. Balasubramanian , Highly Composite , Proc. Int. Congress Math., Hyderabad 2010, Hindustan Book Agency, Volume 1, pp. 199f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rubugunday, RK |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rubugunday, Ragunath Krishna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chennai |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2000 |
| Place of death | Chennai |