About Hoon Balakram
Lived 1876 – 1929 (aged 52–53). Hoon Balakram was an Indian judge and mathematician.
Hoon Balakram (1876–1929) was an Indian mathematician, civil servant and briefly a judge of the Bombay High Court.
Biography Balakram was born in Jalandhar, Punjab in 1876. He received his master's degree from Panjab University and later passed the Mathematical Tripos from the St John's College, Cambridge.
Mathematical achievements Balakram proved in 1929 that the expression is an integer for infinitely many values of He further showed that the expression is an integer for only eight values of , namely, , , , , , , , and .
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Indian mathematician
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Hoon Balakram was born in 1876 in Jalandhar.
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