Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya

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{{Short description|Indian mathematician}}
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| name = Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya
| native_name = শ্যামাদাস মুখোপাধ্যায়
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| caption = Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya
| birth_date = {{birth date |1866|06|22}}
| birth_place = Horipal block, [[Hooghly district]], [[West Bengal]]
| death_date = {{death date and age |1937|06|08|1866|06|22}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]]
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| residence = [[Kolkata]]
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| fields = [[mathematics]]
| workplaces = *[[Rajabazar Science College]]
*[[Calcutta University]]
*[[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency University]]
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| alma_mater = [[Calcutta University]]
| thesis_title = Parametric Coefficients in the Differential Geometry of Curves in an N-space
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| thesis_year = 1910
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| known_for = [[Mukhopadhyaya's theorem]],<br/>[[Four-vertex theorem]],<br/>[[Non-Euclidean geometry]],<br/>[[Differential geometry]]
| influences = [[William Booth]]
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| awards = Griffith prize
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'''Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya''' (22 June 1866 – 8 May 1937) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[mathematician]] who introduced the [[four-vertex theorem]] and [[Mukhopadhyaya's theorem]] in [[plane geometry]].

== Biography ==
Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya was born at [[Haripal (community development block)|Haripal]], [[Hooghly district]], in the [[West Bengal]], [[India]]. He graduated from [[Hooghly Mohsin College|Hooghly College]], received his M.A. degree from [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]] in [[Calcutta]], and his Ph.D. degree from [[Calcutta University]] in 1910. He also took classes form the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.<ref>[https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=mS9iDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=Syamadas+Mukhopadhyaya+student&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMtde-mojnAhXO-GEKHWYhDdkQ6AEIQTAD#v=onepage&q=Syamadas%20Mukhopadhyaya%20student&f=false History of the Calcutta School of Physical Sciences]</ref>

Mukhopadhyaya was appointed by Asustosh Mookerjee as professor of mathematics in the [[Rajabazar Science College]], [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>[https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=q8H3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT363&dq=Syamadas+Mukhopadhyaya+student&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMtde-mojnAhXO-GEKHWYhDdkQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=Syamadas%20Mukhopadhyaya%20student&f=false Sources in the Development of Mathematics: Series and Products from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century]</ref> [[Jacques Hadamard]] communicated with Mukhopadyaya about the latter's work on the geometry of a plane arc<ref>[https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=TBvOAAAAMAAJ&q=Syamadas+Mukhopadhyaya+student&dq=Syamadas+Mukhopadhyaya+student&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMtde-mojnAhXO-GEKHWYhDdkQ6AEIKTAA Collected geometrical papers of Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya, Volume 1]</ref> and [[Wilhelm Blaschke]]'s book on geometry had a reference to Mukhopadhyaya.<ref>[https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=oF0eAQAAIAAJ&dq=Syamadas+Mukhopadhyaya+student&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Mukhopadhyaya Calcutta Review 1934]</ref>

He worked at [[Bangabasi College]] and then at [[Bethune College]] in Calcutta, where he lectured in [[Mathematics]], [[English Literature]], and [[Philosophy]]. In 1932, he was elected president of the [[Calcutta Mathematical Society]]. He served in this capacity until his death from [[heart failure]] in 1937. Mukhopadhyaya went to Europe on a Ghose Travelling Fellowship in 1933 to study methods of education. He gave lectures in Paris University.<ref>[https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=P54UAAAAIAAJ&q=Syamadas+Mukhopadhyaya+student&dq=Syamadas+Mukhopadhyaya+student&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMtde-mojnAhXO-GEKHWYhDdkQ6AEIOjAC The Mathematics Student, Volumes 1-4, 1933]</ref>

==References==
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*{{Citation | last1=Chaki | first1=M. C. | title=Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya (1866–1937) |mr=1306649 | year=1990 | journal=Journal of Pure Mathematics | volume=7 | pages=59–65}}
*{{Citation | last1=Mukhopãdhyãya | first1=S. | title=Collected geometrical papers of Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBvOAAAAMAAJ | publisher=Calcutta University Press | year=1929}}
* "Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya", ''Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society'', Vol. 29 (1937), pages 115-120.
* D. DeTurck, H. Gluck, D. Pomerleano, D.S. Vick, [http://www.ams.org/notices/200702/fea-gluck.pdf The four vertex theorem and its converse], ''[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society|Notices of the AMS]]'', '''54''' (2007), no. 2, 192–207.

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[[Category:Differential geometers]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian mathematicians]]
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[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta faculty]]
[[Category:Scientists from Kolkata]]
[[Category:1937 deaths]]
[[Category:1866 births]]

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