Vashishtha Narayan Singh
| Vashishtha Narayan Singh | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
April 2, 1942 Basantpur, Bhojpur, Bihar, British India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known for | Reproducing Kernels and Operators with a Cyclic Vector |
Vashishtha Narayan Singh is an Indian mathematician[1] from Basantpur, Bhojpur District, Bihar, India.
Early life and education
He was born on 2 April 1942 in Basantpur village of Bhojpur district in Bihar, India[2] to Lal Bahadur Singh and Lahaso Devi. He received his primary and secondary education from Netarhat Residential School and college education from Patna Science College. Vashishtha Narayan Singh became a legend[3] as a student when he was allowed by Patna University to appear in the two-year course of B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics in its very first year. This achievement of his still mentioned with a sense of pride by Netarhat Vidyalay[4] He received PhD on Reproducing Kernels and Operators with a Cyclic Vector from University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.[5] His doctoral advisor was John L. Kelley.
Personal life
He married in 1974. He has suffered from schizophrenia. After a few years of marriage he and his wife separated due to his illness.[6]
Career
After his PhD, he worked at NASA and then returned to India in 1973 to teach at ISI Kolkata, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and TIFR Bombay. In 2014 he was appointed as guest faculty in Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor.[1][7]
Works
- Singh, Vashishtha N. (1974). Reproducing kernels and operators with a cyclic vector. I. Pacific J. Math. 52 (1974), no. 2, 567–584.
- Singh, V.N. (1957) "Certain generalized hypergeometric identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type",Pac. J. Math. 7, 1011-1014
- Singh, V.N. (1957) "Certain generalized hypergeometric identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type (II)",Pac. J. Math. 7, 1691-1699
- Singh, V.N. (1959) "A note on the computation of Alder's polynomials," Pac. J. Math., 9, 271-275
- George E. Andrews (1974) "An analytic generalization of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities for odd moduli", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol 71, No.10, 4082-4085
References
- 1 2 Prasad, Bhuvneshwar (April 19, 2013). "Forgotten mathematics legend Vashishtha Narayan Singh back in academia". The Times of India (Patna). Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ↑ Wednesday, April 9, 2014 (2013-07-05). "India's own beautiful mind?". Business Standard. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ "Nation fails its sick maths wizard". The Times of India (Patna). April 3, 2004. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ↑ "Achievements of Netarhat Vidyalay". Netarhat Vidyalay. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Vashishtha Narayan Singh". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ↑ P Thomas, Mini (November 5, 2013). "Room with a Brilliant View". The Week. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ↑ "Disturbed Genius in Penury : Former IIT Prof. Vasistha Singh". The PanIIT Alumni Association. Retrieved April 6, 2014.