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tirukkannapuram, vijayaraghavan, tamil, கண, ணப, ரம, ஜயர, கவன, november, 1902, april, 1955, indian, mathematician, from, madras, region, worked, with, hardy, when, went, oxford, 1920s, pisot, vijayaraghavan, numbers, fellow, indian, academy, sciences, elected, . Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan Tamil த ர க கண ணப ரம வ ஜயர கவன 30 November 1902 20 April 1955 was an Indian mathematician from the 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 Thirukannapuram VijayaraghavanBorn 1902 11 30 30 November 1902Died20 April 1955 1955 04 20 aged 52 OccupationmathematicianVijayaraghavan was well versed in Sanskrit and Tamil He was a close friend of Andre Weil He served with him in Aligarh Muslim University He later moved to the University of Dhaka in protest at Weil s firing from AMU 1 Vijayaraghavan proved a special case of Herschfeld s theorem on nested radicals 2 For a n gt 0 displaystyle a n gt 0 a 1 a 2 a 3 a 4 displaystyle sqrt a 1 sqrt a 2 sqrt a 3 sqrt a 4 cdots converges if and only if lim log a n 2 n lt displaystyle overline lim log a n 2 n lt infty where lim displaystyle overline lim denotes the limit superior References Edit M S Raghunathan Artless innocents and ivory tower sophisticates Some personalities on the Indian mathematical scene Ramanujan S Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan Ed G H Hardy P V S Aiyar and B M Wilson Providence RI American Mathematical Society 2000 p 348 External links EditTirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project This article about an Indian mathematician is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan amp oldid 1087481434, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,