Ratan Shankar Mishra

Ratan Shankar Mishra (1918–1999) was an Indian mathematician and academic who was known for his solutions to the Unified fluid theory of Albert Einstein. He headed the department of Mathematics of the University of Gorakhpur and University of Allahabad (1963-1968) and served as the vice chancellor of Lucknow University (1982-1985), as a reader at University of Delhi (1954-1958) and as the dean at Banares Hindu University, Varanasi (1965-1968).

Biography

Ratan Shankar Mishra was born on 15 October 1918 at Ajgaon, a small hamlet in Unnao district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Hi completed his schooling from the Government High School in Unnao in 1937 and did intermediate course at Kanyakubj Inter College, Lucknow after which he passed BSc with honours and MSc from Lucknow University. He was promoted as the dean in 1965 and in 1968, he joined Banares Hindu University as a selection grade professor and headed the maths and statistics department. He also served as a visiting professor at University of Kuwait (1970, 1980–81, 1986), University of Windsor (1974) and the University of Waterloo (1967, 1972)

Ratan Shankar Mishra died on 23 August 1999, at the age of 80. He was known to have elucidated the complete solutions to the unified field theory of Albert Einstein. with financial assistance from the University Grants Commission where mathematicians from India and abroad like Jack P. Tull moderated the proceedings. he is the author of twelve text books and a report for Indian Science Congress Association published under the name, Progress of Mathematics - A decade (1963-1972). He was the editor in chief of Allhabad University journal, Progress of mathematics, editorial advisor of Forum of Mathematics journal and a member of the editorial boards of Research Journal in Science of Kanpur University National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), International Academy of Physical Sciences and the Bihar Academy of Sciences. Banares Hindu University honoured him by selecting him as the Emeritus Professor of the university. Vaclav Hlavaty, the Czech-American mathematician bequeathed his unfinished problem on field equations to R. S. Mishra, by way of a note left on his death bed and Mishra completed the problem, text of which runs into about 100 pages.

He received the Banerjee Prize from Lucknow University in 1952 for the best research work. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1971. Indian Mathematical Society placed the Distinguished Service Award on him in 1982 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Rashtriya Yuwa Kendra selected him for the Teachers' Day Award, Shikha Shiromani Alankaran in 1994. On 5 May 1995, Banares Hindu University honoured him as the chief guest of their Teachers' Day functions.