K. Ananda Rau
Ananda Rau | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 September 1893 |
| Died | 22 January 1966 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Presidency College, Madras |
| Known for | summability of series, theory of functions of a complex variable and sums of an even number of squares |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Presidency College, Madras |
| Doctoral advisor | Godfrey Harold Hardy |
K. Ananda Rau (21 September 1893 – 22 January 1966) was an eminent Indian mathematician and a contemporary of Ramanujan. Though Rau was six years junior to Ramanujan, his mathematical trajectory, unlike Ramanujan's, was very much a conventional one and he had decided to pursue a career in mathematics well before Ramanujan's prowess became known.