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{{short description|Indian mathematician, educationist}}
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| birth_place = Andhra Pradesh, India
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| occupation = Mathematician<br>educationist
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Government of Andhra Pradesh]] Best Teacher Award<br>[[Rajiv Gandhi Foundation]] Fellowship
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'''Vanaja Iyengar''' (died 2001) was an Indian mathematician, educationist<ref name="A man called Mohit Sen">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2003/05/18/stories/2003051800530600.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031117144418/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2003/05/18/stories/2003051800530600.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=17 November 2003 | title=A man called Mohit Sen | date=18 May 2003 | work=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=20 August 2015}}</ref> and the founder vice-chancellor of [[Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam]], [[Tirupati]], in the south Indian state of [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref name="Kameswaramma Kuppuswamy Memorial Lecture">{{cite web | url=http://www.iiwcindia.org/transactions/transaction67.pdf | title=Kameswaramma Kuppuswamy Memorial Lecture | publisher=Indian Institute of World Culture |year=2015 | access-date=20 August 2015}}</ref> She was one of the founders of the [[Andhra Mahila Sabha School of Informatics]].<ref name="AMS School of Informatics">{{cite web | url=http://www.amssoi.org.in/about-amssoi/ | title=AMS School of Informatics | publisher=AMS School of Informatics |year=2015 | access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1987.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |year=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

==Biography==
Born in the undivided [[Andhra Pradesh]], she completed her early education at [[Hyderabad]]<ref name="Vanaja Iyengar - INFLIBNET">{{cite web | url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/1882/13/13_interviews.pdf | title=Vanaja Iyengar | publisher=INFLIBNET |year=2015 | access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref> and obtained higher education in Mathematics from [[Cambridge University]] in 1950, after which she visited Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary as a part of student forums.<ref name="Prof (Smt) Vanaja Iyengar –Founder AMSSOI">{{cite web | url=http://bispindia.com/content/vanaja-iyengar | title=Prof (Smt) Vanaja Iyengar –Founder AMSSOI | publisher=Bispindia |year=2015 | access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref> Her career started as a member of faculty at [[Osmania University]] and worked in two of the colleges affiliated to the university, [[University College for Women, Koti]] (Osmania Women's College) and [[Nizam College]].<ref name="Prof (Smt) Vanaja Iyengar –Founder AMSSOI" />

During her tenure at Osmania, Iyengar secured a doctoral degree in Mathematics from the [[University of Delhi]] in 1958. She served Osmania University as a reader, professor, head of the department of Mathematics department and the principal of the [[University College for Women, Koti]]<ref name="Vanaja Iyengar - INFLIBNET" /> and held the post of the vice-chancellor for a while.<ref name="Prof (Smt) Vanaja Iyengar –Founder AMSSOI" /> When [[Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam]], an all women university, was established in 1983, she was appointed as its vice-chancellor and continued at the post till 1986.<ref name="Mohit Sen (An Autobiography)">{{cite web | url=http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/mohit-sen-autobiography-IDK558/ | title=Mohit Sen (An Autobiography) | publisher=Exotic India |year=2015 | access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref> She was also one of the founder members of the Osmania University Teachers Association.<ref name="Prof (Smt) Vanaja Iyengar –Founder AMSSOI" /> She was a life trustee of [[Andhra Mahila Sabha]] and she served organisation as its vice-president and the president, a post she held since 1994 till her death.<ref name="Prof (Smt) Vanaja Iyengar –Founder AMSSOI" /> She is also credited with articles on the topic of education.<ref name="Kameswaramma Kuppuswamy Memorial Lecture" /><ref name="Sir William Jones: Savant Extraordinary and Cultural Envoy, Issues 64-71">{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4uArgEACAAJ | title=Sir William Jones: Savant Extraordinary and Cultural Envoy, Issues 64–71 | publisher=Indian Institute of World Culture |year=1986 | access-date=21 August 2015 |author1=A. Ranganathan |author2=Madhav Pundalik Pandit |author3=Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao |author4=VANAJA IYENGAR }}</ref>

In 1987, the [[Government of India]] awarded Iyengar the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards" /> She received the Best Teacher award from the [[Government of Andhra Pradesh]] and was a fellow of the [[Rajiv Gandhi Foundation]].<ref name="Prof (Smt) Vanaja Iyengar –Founder AMSSOI" /> She died in 2001, survived by her husband, [[Mohit Sen]], a known communist intellectual, who also died two years later.<ref name="Veteran communist leader Mohit Sen dead">{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/report/sen/20030504.htm | title=Veteran communist leader Mohit Sen dead | publisher=Rediff.com | date=4 May 2003 | access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Mohit Sen]]
* [[Andhra Mahila Sabha]]
* [[Andhra Mahila Sabha School of Informatics]]
* [[Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam]]
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