Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1902 – 1955
Who was Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan?
Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan was an Indian mathematician from Madras region. He worked with G. H. Hardy when he went to Oxford in mid-1920s on Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers. He was a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences elected in the year 1934.
Vijayaraghavan was well versed in Sanskrit and Tamil, the only son of famous upanyasaka tirukkannapuram Pattappa Swamy. Pattappa Swamy, to this day, is considered to be one of the most important personalities in sri vaishnavam or ramanuja sampradayam in the 20th century. Vijayaraghavan was a close friend of André Weil. He served with him in Aligarh Muslim University. He later shifted to University of Dhaka, protesting Weil's firing from AMU.
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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- Born
- Nov 30, 1902
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 20, 1955
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on July 23, 2013
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