Sarvadaman Chowla

Sarvadaman Chowla ( born October 22, 1907 in London, † December 10, 1995 in Laramie, Wyoming) was an Indian mathematician who worked on number theory, analysis, and combinatorics.

He was born in London, because his father Gopal Chowla, later professor in Lahore, at Cambridge University studied. Chowla returned with his family to India, where he studied ( master's degree in 1928 ) at the Government College in Lahore. He then went to Cambridge University, where he received his doctorate in 1931 at John Edensor Littlewood. Chowla taught at various universities in India: St Stephen 's College in Delhi, Banaras Hindu University in Benares, Andhra University in Waltair and from 1936 to 1947 as chairman of the mathematics department at Government College of Punjab in Lahore. In 1947 he went to the U.S. to escape the turmoil of the civil war after independence, which led to violent clashes in Punjab. By 1949 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study, then a professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence ( Kansas). In 1952 he went to the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1963 he was a professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he remained until his retirement in 1976.

Chowla published a large number of works such as in the additive number theory ( Waring problem, partitions), analytic number theory ( Riemann zeta function, Epstein zeta function, Dirichlet functions, etc.), quadratic forms, the class numbers of different algebraic number fields, Bernoulli numbers, Diophantine equations, elliptic integrals, Latin squares, trigonometric sums. According to him and Herbert Ryser, Richard Bruck Bruck - Chowla - Ryser theorem (1950 ) is in the theory of block designs named ( and finite projective planes ) and the Ankeny - Artin - Chowla theorem on the class number of real quadratic number fields.

He has published, among others with Harold Davenport, Emil Artin and Nesmith Ankeny, Atle Selberg, Helmut Hasse, Louis Mordell, Thoralf Skolem, Paul Erdős, Marshall Hall, Goro Shimura, Hans Zassenhaus, Richard Brewer.

He was a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He was an honorary member of the Norwegian Academy and member of the London Mathematical Society. In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Elementary remarks on the zeta function of an algebraic variety ).

His doctoral John Friedlander and one in India RP Bambah (* 1925), who conducted research on the geometry of numbers and professor at the University of Chandigarh was.

Writings

• Chowla, James Huard, Kenneth Williams (Editor): Collected Papers of S. Chowla. Montreal 2000.
• The Riemann Hypothesis and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. Routledge, New York 1965.