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Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan

1902 – 1955

Indian mathematician

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Lived 1902 – 1955 (aged 52). Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan was an Indian mathematician and university teacher.

Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan (; 30 November 1902 – 20 April 1955) was an Indian mathematician from the Madras region. He worked with G. H. Hardy on Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers when he went to Oxford in the mid-1920s. He was a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences elected in 1934. His father was a pandit.

Vijayaraghavan was well-versed in Sanskrit and Tamil. He was a close friend of André Weil. Weil hired him in 1930 despite his lack of diploma, and they served together in Aligarh Muslim University. While Weil was away in Europe, Ross Masood planned to replace Weil's professorship with Vijayaraghavan, but Vijayaraghavan quit in protest and moved to the University of Dhaka.

Vijayaraghavan proved a special case of Herschfeld's theorem on nested radicals: For

converges if and only if

where denotes the limit superior.

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Education
University of Oxford
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Aligarh Muslim University, University of Dhaka

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Who was Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan?

Indian mathematician (1902-1955)

When was Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan born?

Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan was born on 30 November 1902.

When did Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan die?

Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan died on 20 April 1955.

What was Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan's occupation?

Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan was a mathematician and university teacher.

What nationality was Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan?

Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan was Indian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan

· Wikidata: Q3709922

· DBpedia: Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan

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