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'''Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan''' ({{lang-ta|திருக்கண்ணபுரம் விஜயராகவன்}}; 30 November 1902 – 20 April 1955) was an | '''Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan''' ({{lang-ta|திருக்கண்ணபுரம் விஜயராகவன்}}; 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 number]]s. He was a fellow of [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected in the year 1934. | ||
Vijayaraghavan was well versed in Sanskrit and Tamil. He was a close friend of [[André 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.<ref>M.S. Raghunathan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040104021712/http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252003/526.pdf Artless innocents and ivory-tower sophisticates: Some personalities on the Indian mathematical scene].</ref> | Vijayaraghavan was well versed in Sanskrit and Tamil. He was a close friend of [[André 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.<ref>M.S. Raghunathan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040104021712/http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252003/526.pdf Artless innocents and ivory-tower sophisticates: Some personalities on the Indian mathematical scene].</ref> | ||