Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya

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Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya (born June 22, 1866 in Haripal , † May 8, 1937 in Calcutta ) was an Indian mathematician who in 1909 was the first to prove the four-part theorem.

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Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya was born in Haripal, Hooghly District in West Bengal , India. He graduated from Hooghly College, received his MA from Presidency College, Calcutta, and received his PhD from Calcutta University in 1910 . He worked at Bangabasi College and later at Bethune College in Calcutta as a lecturer in mathematics, English literature and philosophy. In 1932 he was elected President of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, which he remained until his death of heart failure in 1937.

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  • Mukhopadhyaya: New methods in the geometry of a plane arc. In: Bull. Calcutta Math. Soc. 1, 1909, pp. 21-27.
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  • Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya: Collected geometrical papers of Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya. Calcutta University Press, 1929.
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  • D. DeTurck, H. Gluck, D. Pomerleano, DS Vick: The four vertex theorem and its converse. In: Notices of the AMS. 54, 2007, No. 2, pp. 192-207.