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Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla (22 October 1907 – 10 December 1995) was an Indian American mathematician, specializing in number theory.

Early life

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 master's 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.

Career and awards

Chowla then returned to India, where he taught at several universities, becoming head of mathematics at Government College, Lahore 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 until the fall of 1949, then taught at the University of Kansas in Lawrence until moving to the University of Colorado in 1952. He moved to Penn State in 1963 as a research professor, where he remained until his retirement in 1976. He was a member of the Indian National Science Academy.

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

Works

• Chowla, Sarvadaman (2000). James G. Huard; Kenneth S. Williams (eds.). The Collected Papers of Sarvadaman Chowla. Montréal: Centre de Recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal. OCLC 43730416.
• Chowla, S. (1965). Riemann Hypothesis and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-677-00140-1. OCLC 15428640.

Notes

1. "Sarvadaman Chowla - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
2. Raymond G. Ayoub, James G. Huard, and Kenneth S. Williams (May 1998). "Sarvadaman Chowla (1907–1995)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 45 (5). American Mathematical Society.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. ^ Ayoub, Raymond G.; James G. Huard; Kenneth S. Williams (May 1998). "Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995)" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 45 (5). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society: 594–598. ISSN 0002-9920. OCLC 1480366. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
4. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sarvadaman Chowla", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

External links

• Sarvadaman Chowla at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

• American Hindus
• 1907 births
• 1995 deaths
• 20th-century Indian mathematicians
• Indian number theorists
• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• English emigrants to the United States
• University of Colorado Boulder faculty
• University of Kansas faculty
• Pennsylvania State University faculty
• Government College University, Lahore alumni
• English Hindus
• English people of Indian descent
• American academics of Indian descent