Recommendation letter for B S Madhava Rao, post-BSc, Mysore University.

Recommendation letter for B S Madhava Rao, post-MSc, Calcutta University.

Recommendation letter for B S Madhava Rao, post-MSc, Calcutta University.

Recommendation letter for B S Madhava Rao, post-MSc, Calcutta University.

Recommendation letter for B S Madhava Rao, post-MSc, Calcutta University, mentions Madhava Rao's intention to apply for a Mysore Government scholarship to study in Paris.

Discussion of Compton effect shown by X-rays on charged mesons, relevance to Bremstrahlung [braking radiation] problems, then unsolved. Bhabha asks Madhava Rao to begin work on the problem, and mentions that Bhabha is currently working on spinning particles. Also reports that students of Oppenheimer have shown radiation loss due to Bremsstrahlung which depends on particle type.

Reply to Madhava Rao's letter dated 24 October 1934 regarding his intention to purchase a six inch equatorial telescope for Central College, Bangalore. Bhaskaran requests the instrument's specifications and a photo, prior to forwarding instructions for its erection and adjustment.

Reply regarding Madhava Rao's request for contributions to a jubilee volume of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, for Raman's 50th birthday. Born mentions a possible paper on 2nd order scattering effects. Second letter attached to forwarded paper, which is not included.

Notes receipt of seven of Madhava Rao's recent papers.

Invitation to present a paper at a symposium on generalised geometry at the Hyderabad conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, December 21st, 1939.

Regarding procedural details for the award of Madhava Rao's DSc from Calcutta University.

Form letter with a list of publications of L'Institut de Physique with a request to indicate which papers are required via return correspondence, with name and address. From the editors, Jean J. Weigle and E.C.G. Stueckleberg. [In French]

Recommendation letter -- mentions Madhava Rao's intention to continue with further study in Germany.

Letter thanking Madhava Rao and his wife for their hospitality during a visit by Mahalanobis and his wife. Solicits Madhava Rao's interest in the next session of the Statistical Conference in Madras and Mysore, January 1940.

Recommendation letter for a Foreign Research Scholarship, funded by the Tata Endowment.

Mentions forwarding a paper for publication in the Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. Ind. Mentions a talk to be given at the Mathematical Physics Seminar at Cambridge about scepticism regarding the neutrino theory developed by Arseny Sokolov, and requests Madhava Rao to notify him of any mistakes found in the work. Detailed remarks regarding Pryce, Maurice Henry Lecorney. "On the neutrino theory of light." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 165.921 (1938): 247-271.

Postcard thanking Madhava Rao for sending paper offprints. [In German]

Forwards through A.N. Rao a paper on geometry for publication in the Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. Ind. Discusses geometric aspects of quantum mechanics, with reference to Paul Dirac's work on spinors.

Notes receipt of reprints of Madhava Rao's papers. Makes reference to a fallacy, presumably in quantum mechanics, pointed out in a letter to H.F. Baker.

Recommendation letter, post-MSc, Calcutta University, mentions Madhava Rao's intention to study at Goettingen.

Clarifies that he did not endorse S.Sulaiman's theory of gravitation, and the misreporting was due to journalists present at a scientific gathering where he had made a joking reference to Sulaiman.

Notes receipt of reprints of five of Madhavarao's papers on relativistic quantum mechanics; sends congratulations on the award of Madhava Rao's DSc; sends thanks for Madhava Rao's review of Siddiqi's book "Quantum Mechanics" in Current Science, and encloses two papers by Minakshi Sundaram, Madras University, and requests their publication in the Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. Ind.

Sends apologies for late reply to Madhava Rao's letter. Mentions that he prefers to discuss his theory of relativity in publication rather than private correspondence, due to a lack of time.

Admission to the DSc degree upon receipt of reviews of Madhava Rao's thesis "Contributions to Born's Field Theory." Examiners are Jacques Hadamard, Oswald Veblen, Hermann Weyl.

Grant of advance salary, from the University of Mysore, enabling the purchase of a motor car.

Recommendation letter, post-MSc, Calcutta University, noting intention to study at a European university.

Relates that Madhavarao's DSc thesis has been examined by Weyl, and a report submitted. Report is not enclosed. Weyl notes that Oswald Veblen, also at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, has submitted a separate report.

Apologises for delay in response to letter of 21st October 1937, sends thanks.

Sends thanks for opening a symposium on "Quantum Mechanics"; thanks Madhava Rao for his congratulations on the success of the Mathematics section of the last Indian Science Congress, and forwards excerpts from a letter received from E.A. Milne, Oxford, about galactic dynamics.

Comments regarding evaluation of a thesis by Mukherji, asks for news about Bhabha's appointment to Calcutta University; discussion of paper proofs and errata sent to M.E. Venkatachari (?), mentions a letter from Wolfgang Pauli, on the reduction of the Dirac equation to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, says he will be in Bangalore in June; communicates correction to expression in paper, sends Madhava Rao thanks for seeing him off, together with C.V. Raman; sends corrections to mistakes in paper on mesons; communicates further corrections to the returned proofs, requests a further set of proofs; notes having posted corrections to Bhabha and Madhava Rao's coauthored paper, notes receipt of a second letter from Wolfgang Pauli, Bhabha mentions his dissatisfaction with Pauli's solution and suggests Madhava Rao attempt the problem; discussion on work with Max Born about the relationship between electron negative energy states and the calculation of second-order self-energy, asks Madhava Rao to confirm the hypothesis, suggests getting in contact with Born, at the Indian Institute of Science.

Requests mathematical reprints for the library at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Informs Madhava Rao of his election to the Mathematical Association of America. Card is missing the upper left portion.

Requests reprints of Madhava Rao's papers; sends thanks for reprints, expresses admiration for Madhava Rao's work; asks Madhava Rao to ask Bhabha for reprints of Bhabha's papers.

Regarding Madhava Rao's offer of appointment to the Board of Paper Setters and Examiners in Mathematics Physics for the MSc. examination at the Andhra University, suggests that if he accepts the membership, Madhava Rao should set the paper on "The New Quantum Theory and Wave Mechanics," requests reply regarding this suggestion.

Recommendation letter from F.W. Levi to Hermann Weyl, on behalf of K. Venkatachaliengar, regarding the latter spending time at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in order to study modern algebra and meromorphic functions. Letter sent at Madhava Rao's request.

Unable to reply to a query regarding the setting of examination papers due to travel. Madhava also comments on his exclusion from signatories to the K.S. Krishnan memorial appeal.

Query regarding examination procedure.

Sends personal greetings after the Science Congress meeting, requests an unspecified list.

Sends thanks for a note received through Venkatachalam (?), a student of N.S. Nagendra Nath. Mentions work on divergent integrals, and requests a copy of Madhava Rao's thesis.

Requests comment regarding a paper on the geodesic postulate in general relativity, makes introductions, and mentions having sent a copy of his Bombay lecture on gravitation.

Letter from Madhava Rao to Neher asking if Neher and William H. Pickering will join him for a game of tennis. Neher declines with thanks.

Provides an interpretation of an equation Madhava Rao sent him in a letter of 3rd May, in relativistic field theory, regarding the scattering of light by elementary particles. Sends regards to Homi J. Bhabha, and asks if he will come to the USA. Fair copy of original also included.

Returns a translation of a paper by Igor Tamm, requests the return of a number of copies of the journal Physical Review.

Correspondence regarding Indian Academy of Sciences meeting in Poona.

Correspondence regarding the Indian Science Congress, and papers to be presented by Madhava Rao on statistical mechanics and cosmological theories. Second letter discusses paper setting for the subsidiary mathematics examination at the Andhra University, and an intended contribution to the Iyengar Memorial Fund.

Mentions Madhava Rao's recent contribution to the Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress, the Congress's financial problems, and lectures to be delivered by Madhava Rao at Lucknow.

Sends thanks for a message of condolence regarding the late Birbal Sahni.

Mentions a project regarding the properties of particle equations of spin 3/2, and requests preprints from the Journal of the Mysore University published by Madhava Rao regarding the same.

Correspondence regarding lectures to be delivered at the University of Mysore by M.H. Stone, chair of the Mathematics department at the University of Chicago, on compactification in the theory of topological spaces.

Mentions having matriculated from the Calcutta University with Madhava Rao, notes temporary position under A.N. Singh, and requests Madhava Rao's help in finding a permanent position in India.

Requests assistance with payroll matters, mentions the appointment of K.B. Madhava as a Professor of Statistics at the University of Mysore.

Letter regarding spherical symmetry in solutions to the Einstein field equations. First page only, succeeding pages lost.

Text of AIR talk on "Parity in Nature," in manuscript and typescript, together with correspondence regarding payment.

Requests, at length, a position at the Institute of Armament Studies, Poona.

Sends thanks for passing a resolution at the Indian Science Congress regarding the Notebooks of Ramanujan.

Thanks Madhava Rao for his kindness in offering her a MSc seat in Physics, writes that she received a first class degree.

Introduces himself as coexaminer in Algebra for the MSc examination at Calcutta University, forwards a portion of his book on abstract algebra.

Professors Schwartz and Maas to lecture at Central College, Bangalore; sends thanks for resolution passed at the Indian Science Congress regarding the publication of Ramanujan's notebooks.

Sends thanks for passing a resolution at the Indian Science Congress regarding the Notebooks of Ramanujan.

Requests a reprint of Ind. Acad. SCi. 5A, 56 (1937), on the fine structure of Ballmer lines.

Sends thanks for hospitality during a recent visit to Central College, Bangalore, from Oberlin College, Ohio.

Requests a copy of "Commutation rules for matrices related to particles of higher spin," (Half-yearly J. Mysore Univ. Sect. B).

Letter recording gratitute to Madhava Rao for his patronage and guidance of the club, and text of a speech entitled "Some Reminiscences of Hockey in Bangalore."

Unable to attend the marriage of Madhava Rao's daughter, on 22nd October 1952, sends best wishes.

Requests reprints, previously sent but apparently lost, and provides information about courses and professors at the Technische Hochschule, Zürich, including Walter Heitler, Paul Finsler, and Wolfgang Pauli.

Acknowledges receipt of recommendation letter for S.R. Sreenivasan.

Sends a copy of the group photo taken at the Annual Function of the Poona University Mathematics and Statistics Association.

Sends thanks for kind consideration whilst working under Madhava Rao at Central College, Bangalore.

First letter transmits a report on the PhD thesis of Naryiendiah, not enclosed. Second letter concerns a paper on averages of fractional parts of numbers, and requests it be communicated to the editor of the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and suggests Madhava Rao as president of the India Mathematical Society, instead of himself, despite the Council's nomination.

Transmits a copy of Linus Pauling's nuclear test ban petition, enclosed.

Notes receipt of a notification from the Ministry of Defence that Madhava Rao will be taking up the post of Professor of Mathematics cum Ballistics, enquires about housing and domestic arrangements.

Acknowledges receipt of letter indicating Madhava Rao's joining the Defense Science Organisation at Kirkee.

Mentions that Herbert Busemann of the University of Southern California will be passing through Bangalore, has given a lecture at Madras University entitled, "Geometrical Methods in Finsler Spaces," and requests information about lectures scheduled to be given at IISc.

Mentions having forwarded a letter from Madhava Rao in lieu of a testimonial to Gauhati University and on its strength having got a job there. Discussion of his son and nephew's education.

Correspondence regarding Madhava Rao's employment, and his potential appointment to Vice Chancellor of Central College, Bangalore. A second letter mentions the dismissal of an appeal made to government about an unspecified matter.

Requests reprints of three papers.

Forwards a letter from Madhava Rao to the Technical Committee of the India Statistical Institute, not enclosed.

First letter communicates that the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta has recently acquired an electronic digital computer, and plans to aquire a second more powerful machine. Requests names of candidates for fundamental research in numerical analysis and to teach a course on the same at the ISI. Second letter notes receipt of Madhava Rao's reply, recommeding his former students, and requests their further particulars. Also mentions Madhava Rao's desire to use ISI's computer to derive theorems in mathematical logic, and notes intention to study problems like matrix multiplication. Third letter expresses an interest in a problem in number theory mentioned by Madhava Rao, invites him to the ISI during the Indian National Science congress session, and promises to speak to P.C. Mahalanobis about computational assistance free of charge.

Requests Madhava Rao's assistance in applying for a position at the Institute of Armament Studies, Kirkee, on a higher salary than advertised.

Proposes conference regarding a salary increase for university teachers in Mysore and Central College, Bangalore, and suggests no non-university candidate be considered for vice chancellorships.

Communicates resolution passed by the Physical Culture Committee at Central College, Bangalore expressing appreciation for Madhava Rao's service as retired principal and president of the Committee.

Sends thanks for Madhava Rao's offer to review his work, sent to the Bangalore Press.

Correspondence regarding a function honouring Madhava Rao on his retirement as Principal of Central College, Bangalore.

Requests that Madhava Rao delivers lectures on the "elementary theory of relativistic wave equations" at the MSc level, at the University of Madras.

Unable to convene a special meeting of council to record the Indian Academy of Science's appreciation of Madhava Rao's service due to his imminent departure, sends best wishes for his journey to Poona.

Letter from Ramesan onfirms receipt of reprints and that he has given them to W.H. McCrea, who sends thanks in return. Provides details on lectures then on offer at several University of London colleges, as well on Ranganatha Rao, his son, and English daughter-in-law. Letter from McCrea sends thanks for information about Ramesan, and his intent to start Ramesan on mathematical problems in modern astrophysics, and communicates his intent to accept Ramesan to PhD candidacy at London University, pending a personal interview with the Principal.

Communicates travel plans and address in Poona.

Sends thanks for Madhava Rao's letter informing of the award of his PhD, sends greetings and reminiscences. Writes further about travel to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in New York, and his hopes to secure a job with Caltex or Arabian American oil companies, on the strength of the reputation of his professor, P.D. Krynine. Bemoans the state of politics at Mysore University, enquires about Madhava Rao's intention to move to Princeton University as a professor of mathematics.

Sends greetings and details about his stay at the Indian Academy of Sciences, his wife's health, and the status of the Defence Science Conference.

Will complete his MBA at Harvard Business School in June 1957, has received offers from American companies doing business in India, but intends to work in the steel industry. Has listed Madhava Rao as a reference in job applications and for this purpose encloses his CV.

Correspondence regarding the 1957 Indian Science Congress and the annual session of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Communicates travel plans to Bombay via Poona, requests a meeting with Madhava Rao either at Poona or Kirkee.

Leaving for Chicago, USA under the India Wheat Loan Educational Exchange Program, requests meeting at Poona.

Recommendation letter for M.V. Jambunathan, candidate for a professor's post at Mysore University.

Sends greetings and thanks for hospitality during a stay in Bangalore, encloses a letter from his daughter, who sends thanks for shells sent to her by Madhava Rao's children.

Regarding Madhava Rao's election to a position, possibly to the vice-presidency of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Chides Madhava Rao for not writing. Sends news about an interview with C.V. Raman regarding a council position with the Indian Academy of Sciences, and his own travels to Mysore. Mentions a request made by the principal of Central College, Bangalore to the vice-chancellor ahead of a visit by the University Grants Commission for a cyclotron, cost of which was estimated at five lakhs. Request was apparently laughed at.

Sends congratulations on his daughter Leelavathi's marriage to Chi. D.R. Jagannatha Rao.

Correspondence regarding a visit by Brigadier and Mrs. Thadani to Mysore, sends greetings to Madhava Rao and his brother Bheema Rao. Also contains a letter from Thadani informing Madhava Rao of a change in plans and that he will not be visiting Mysore.

First letter confirms receipt of a circular and promises to send a biographical sketch and a portrait, notifies Madhava Rao of his joining Peshawar University (Pakistan), wishes to organise a joint conference of Indian and Pakistani mathematicians, hopes for Madhava Rao's support. Second letter sends wishes on Madhava Rao's daughter's wedding, expresses sentiments regarding old friendships and difficulties at having had to start over in Pakistan.

Response to Madhava Rao's letter, enclosed, requesting Stone's support in securing a visiting professorship for six months at the University of Chicago and for six months at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, proposing to work on Lie algebra and relativistic wave equations, as well as Gibbsian statistics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. Mentions correspondence with N. Jacobson of Yale, shown to Stone whilst he was at Bangalore, as well as a book by E.M. Corson, "Introduction to Tensors, Spinors, and Relativistic Wave Equations," which makes mention of a "Madhavarao algebra" and suggests working on its possible extension, also mentions conversations with Norbert Wiener of MIT regarding the same. Intends to apply for a Fulbright Travel Grant, requests Stone's intimation that he is likely to receive such visiting appointments.

Stone responds that he is no longer chair of the mathematics department at Chicago, and has forwarded Madhava Rao's letters to the new chair, Saunders MacLane, suggests that several professors at Chicago would be interested in mathematical aspects of quantum theory. Notes however that some support from Madhava Rao's own institution would improve his chances, and that teaching appointments are unlikely to be available at Chicago. Hopes to see Madhava Rao during a sabbatical in India, 1955-56.

Sends greeting and congratulations on Madhava Rao having been elected to preside over the mathematics section of the India Science Congress in 1958, informs Madhava Rao of his new job as a signal and telecommunications engineers with the railway services of the Government of India, at the rank of Class I Rs 350-1100, with a starting salary of Rs 380.

Sends greetings and apologies for having been unable to meet Madhava Rao at the railway station on his departure from Bangalore.

Request for letters of recommendation for PhD studies at Chicago, Columbia, Princeton, Duke and Brown, proposes to work on complex variables and elliptic functions.

Correspondence regarding Madhava Rao's transfer to the Atomic Energy Commission, Bombay. Letter from Homi J. Bhabha requests that Madhava Rao's services be loaned for a year by Mysore University, in order to learn of the latest developments in quantum theory, and attend a course of lectures due to be given by Wolfgang Pauli, from 1st November 1952. Further correspondence regards the terms of the leave from Mysore University, and details regarding the pay scale, due to having to maintain two residences, one in Bombay, and the other in Bangalore. Terms requested by Madhava Rao are not acceptable to the Government, nor are the Government's to Madhava Rao, and so the appointment is not taken up.

Note of appreciation from members of the Teacher's Union for Madhava Rao's service as President.

Letter and enclosed statement from a group of researchers in Japan, working on elementary particle theory and theoretical nuclear physics, regarding the peaceful use of atomic energy in Japan, and related legislation recently passed by the Diet.

Correspondence regarding remuneration for administration of examinations in Indian university, and regarding Madhava Rao's birthdate.

References work on inequalities approvingly, asks about the possibility of stating corresponding integral inequalities.

Sends thanks for invitation to Madhava Rao's daughter's wedding, sends best wishes to bride and groom.

Correspondence regarding Vijayaraghavan's travels and mathematical work in the USA, to Chicago, Princeton, Stanford, and Fiske University, in Nashville, Tennessee, and also the possbility of Madhava Rao applying for a Fulbright Travel Award to cover a sabbatical year in the US, at Chicago, Princeton, or Fiske.

Forwards papers in German, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, regarding a linearisation of the Dirac relativistic wave equation, and in French, from Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, regarding Poynting vectors for scalar and pseudoscalar mesons.

Correspondence regarding reprints from the Institute of Statistics at the University of Uppsala. Also contains a letter of thanks from Wold for his hospitality during their recent visit to Bangalore and Mysore.

Sends thanks for letter notifying him of Madhava Rao's paper on Pauli identities, regrets having been previously unaware of it, apologises for not making reference to it in his own article.

Proposes changes in the quantum mechanics syllabus for the MSc at Madras University, notes difficulty in finding students and doubts whether offering such a course is worthwhile, suggests instead including a course on hydrodynamics or group theory.

Communicates a paper by G.H. Tewari, as well as one of his own, on a conjecture of Ramanujan.

Corrrespondence regarding A.S. Nalini, a preuniversity college student and mental calculator. Includes several question papers set by Madhava Rao, his answer sheets, as well as Madhava Rao's opinion that such "numerical gymnastics" do not indicate more general mathematical aptitude.

Forwards two copies of his book on "viloma ganitha," entited "Raja Ganitham on Osmani Hisab," requests Madhava Rao's help in popularising his methods among the delegates of the 1960 Indian Mathematical Congress due to be held in Chandigarh. Mentions a "viloma ganitha yajna" involving the mental extraction of cube roots to nine significant figues, due to his blindness caused by cataract.

Request for recommendation letter for PhD study in the USA. Encloses Madhava Rao's letter of reply.

Responds to comments made in a reviewer report of his PhD thesis submitted to Calcutta University, entitled "On Ship Waves and Wave Resistance," requests a copy of the report, speculates as to the possibility of experimentally verifying results at the Naval Architecture Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and further requests references on Japanese and Soviet work on ship resistance.

Notifies Madhava Rao that he may he unable to address the meeting of the Indian Mathematical Society on "Arithmetical discrete subgroups of Lie groups," due to arriving in India the day before the meeting.

Correspondence regarding selection committee membership at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for professorships in mathematics.

Sends congraulations on Madhava Rao's new appointment, says he has nothing to contribute to any discussions regarding the Indian Mathematical Society, invites Madhava Rao to lunch at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay.

Forwards question papers for the BSc and MSc in mathematical physics at Andhra University, not enclosed.

Requests a recommendation letter for Dr. Veldanda V. Rao, asks about research, teaching, and his spoken English.

Requests advice and a meeting regarding PhD applications, as well as a recommendation letter for a Research Assistantship in the UK.

Sends thanks for preprints and program of the Jubilee Celebration of the Indian Mathematical Society.

Sends information about graduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley about advanced topics in statistics, provides news about visits of mutual acquaintances to the USA, and sends regards to those in India.

Mentions a paper entitled "Some mathematical aspects of high altitude gunnery," requests permission to send the paper for Madhava Rao's opinion and in order for it to be submitted to an appropriate journal.

Handwritten draft of the paper with corrections and notes.

Handwritten and typewritten draft of the paper with corrections and notes.

Handwritten draft of a review about the elementary proof of one of Ramanujan's simple conjectures in number theory.

Handwritten and typewritten draft of the paper with corrections and notes.

Handwritten draft of the paper with corrections and notes.

Handwritten draft of the paper with corrections and notes.

Typewritten draft of the paper with corrections and notes.

Weyl's review of the eight papers presented as a thesis by Madhava Rao. He approves and recommends the conferment of degree of Doctor of Science upon Rao.

Handwritten and bound copy of thesis.

Reprinted from The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society

The Half-yearly Journal of the Mysore University, Vol. 1, No. 1

The Half-yearly Journal of the Mysore University, Vol. 7, No. 1

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 6. Only contains the cover page.

Reprinted from The Mathematics Student, Vol. 1, No. 3

The Half-yearly Journal of the Mysore University, Vol. 8, No. 1

Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 3

Current Science

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2

Reprinted from Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3

Sonderdruck aus Physikalische Zeitschrift, Vol. 5, pp. 187-189

Sonderdruck aus Physikalische Zeitschrift, Vol. 5, pp. 187-189

Reprinted from Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 4

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 8, No.5

Journal of Mysore University, Vol. 5, Part 9.

Journal of Mysore University, Vol. 1

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Benares Mathematical Society, Vol.2

Journal of Mysore University, Vol. 1, Part 2

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 13.

Journal of Mysore University, Vol. 1, Part 10

Journal of Mysore University, Vol. 5, Part 7.

Journal of Mysore University, Vol. 6, Part 5

Current Science

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 22.

Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, Vol. 187

Reprinted from Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 24

Reprinted from Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 29

Reprinted from Defence Science Journal

Reprinted from Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 47

Section of Mathematics - Presidential Address, 45th Indian Science Congress, Madras

Reprinted from the Indian Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 9, No. 2

Question Papers for M.A. and M. Sc. Examinations

Assessment sheet for interviewees for the post of Professorship of Mathematics

Question Papers on Applied Mathematics

Question Paper on Quantum Mechanics

Question Papers on Applied Mathematics,

B.S. Madhava Rao's work on recreational mathematics, specifically his research on magic squares mentioned in Narayana Pandita's Ganita Kaumudi

B. S. Madhava Rao's work on recreational mathematics, specifically his research on magic squares mentioned in Narayana Pandita's Ganita Kaumudi

B. S. Madhava Rao's work on recreational mathematics, specifically his research on magic squares mentioned in Narayana Pandita's Ganita Kaumudi

B. S. Madhava Rao's work on recreational mathematics, specifically his research on magic squares mentioned in Narayana Pandita's Ganita Kaumudi

B. S. Madhava Rao's work on recreational mathematics, specifically his research on magic squares mentioned in Narayana Pandita's Ganita Kaumudi

Contains research notes on magic square. Includes notes on maths and mystery --Martin Gardner. Also contains research notes for a book for children on mathematical puzzles.

Contains research notes on magic square. Includes notes on linear and non-linear indeterminate equations

Contains research notes on magic square.

Research notes on magic squares

Contains research notes on magic squares.

Contains research notes on magic squares. Includes notes on linear indeterminate equations

Research notes on magic squares and drafts of the chapters of the book on magic square.

Small brown diary and loose notes on magic squares.

Contains research notes on magic squares.

Research Notes on magic squares.

Contains research notes on magic squares.

Contains research notes on magic squares and drafts of correspondence related to magic square.

Contains research notes on magic squares, includes a postcard sent to Madhava Rao on 25th December 1980. Also contains notes on Bhaskara I's sine approximation formula and notes on Planck.

Contains research notes on magic square. Includes a newspaper clipping on a superconducting super collider.

Contains research notes on magic square.

Contains research notes on magic square.

Contains research notes and calculations related to magic square.

Loose pages of a notebook, a notebook with cover missing and loose notes. Contains research notes on magic square. The loose notes contain calculations relating to the manuscript of the book on magic square.

Contains bibliographic notes on general relativity, astrophysics, topology. Reverse- side of the papers have been used for research notes on magic square at a later date (perhaps post 1970s).

Contains handwritten drafts of letters.

Contains lecture notes on Stafford Beer, queue theory, ballistics, lanchester equations, game theory (theory of games), OSRD (Office of Scientific Research and Development), air warfare, submarine warfare, distribution functions, linear programming, measure and countermeasure.

Excerpted notes on number theory, and on some unsolved problems of arithmetic.

Lectures notes on elasticity to MSc students, Syllabus on stress and strain, and tensors.

Lecture notes on analytical dynamics, integrable systems, and holonomic systems.

Bibliographic notes on reviews of modern physics (journal), general relativity and experimental tests, and quantum field theory.

Lecture notes on analytical dynamics, following Whittaker. Notes on Lagrangian dynamics, integrable systems, holonomic systems, theory of vibrations, examination questions on general relativity, reverse contains bibliographic notes on cosmology, gravitation and geometry, radio astronomy, group theory, and orthogonal polynomials.

Contains lecture notes on quantum mechanics. Includes syllabus on inside cover, matrix mechanics, wave mechanics, schrödinger equations, relativistic quantum mechanics, Dirac equation. The reverse side contains lecture notes on elasticity, following Sokolnikoff, stress and strain, torsion, and tensors.

Lecture notes on quantum mechanics, matrix mechanics, wave mechanics, Schrödinger equations, general relativity, astroparticle physics, and neutrinos.

Contains lecture notes and calculations, including on Bohr's theory of frequency relation.

Contains bibliographic notes on number theory, magic squares and has been used as an exercise book for problems.

Includes notes on the historical account of development of quantum theory. Includes bilbliographic notes on quantum field theory, fluid dynamics, continuum mechanics, topology, plasma physics and information theory. Mentions correspondence with Pauli, Dirac equation, and contains questions on higher algebra for examinations.

Contains questions for examinations on vector calculus and probability, notes on Dirac, particle physics; notes on Bhabha, abstract algebra, topology; Lecture notes on CV Raman studies on musical instruments.

Lecture notes on theory of games; contains a draft of a letter to K R Sonawane. Research notes on diophantine equations, linear indeterminate equations, bibliography on Physics, number theory, Hindu religion, transfinite numbers, category theory, linear algebra, measure theory, notes on operations research, and ballistics.

Bibliographic notes on number theory, theory of computation, magic squares, abstract algebra, particle physics, astrophysics, and graph theory.

Research notes and bibliographic notes on physics, astronomy, fluid dynamics, partial differential equations. Includes notes on Ramsey's hydrodynamics. Also contains personal anecdotes and entries.

Contains calculations and notes on ordinary differential equations, bibliographic excerpts on astrophysics, number theory and optics. Also includes doodles and poems.

Contains notes on optics and electrostatics, number theory. Includes bibliographic notes on complex analysis and particle physics. Also contains problems in recreational mathematics, examination questions, and excerpted notes on magnetism.

Drafts of examination questions and calculations.

Excerpted notes on mathematical analysis, category theory, Galois theory, mathematical nursery rhymes, magic squares

Contains notes on linear algebra as well as lecture notes.

Excerpted notes on ordinary differential equations, complex analysis, and magic square.

Research notes in French, on classical mechanics, integrable systems, draft letter Zeitschrift für Physik on Liouville and Stäckels theorems relating to a mechanical system which cites Vrkljan, Hamilton-Jacobi equation, classical mechanics, partial differential equation, Levi-Civita, quadratic forms, Hamiltonian dynamics, German, draft paper sent to Mathematische Annalen, Operator theory. The reverse pages of the notebook contain lecture notes on Stark effect and quantum mechanics.

Contains calculations and notes on number curiosities and sums of squares.

Miscellaneous notes on quantum field theory. Includes biography of Homi J. Bhaba; drafts of letters to Michael Martin Nieto, Samarendra Nath Biswas, draft text of talk on textbook about the role of mathematics in science dated 1975, UGC lectures on number curiosities, draft letter to Suraj N. Gupta, bibliographic notes on: PLN Rao's problem, spaceflight, mathematical games, martin gardner, number theory, linear indeterminate equations, nuclear fusion, group theory in solid state physics, magic squares, exactly solvable models, statistical mechanics.

Research notes on photons, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, entropy, super conductivity, liquid helium, thermodynamics. Also includes notes on Richard Feyman; notes on magic squares.

Exercise book on indeterminate equations and number theory.

Contains research notes on linear indeterminate equations, Brahmagupta, Lagrange, Euler, and magic square.

Bibliographic notes on quantum field theory, particle physics, astrophysics, mathematical analysis, graph theory, nuclear physics, and mathematical biology.

Contains research notes on mathematical game problems, miscellaneous mathematical problems and excerpted notes from journals on number theory.

Excerpted notes on number theory.

Biographical and anecdotal notes on Bhabha.

Loose notes contain handwritten draft of a talk on Ballistics; excerpted note from 'The World of Walter Ernst - The rise and fall of German Science' by K. Mendelsohn.

Research notes on quantum field theory and Harishchandra. Includes an abstract of a lecture on quantum field theory; also mentions Bhabha.

Contains bibliographic notes on differential geometry, topology, theoretical and experimental physics and relativity. Includes notes on magic squares on the reverse side.

Excerpted notes on Electricity and magnetism by J. H. Fewkes and John Yarwood.

Excerpted notes on quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, dynamics, Hamiltonian dynamics, and partial differential equations.

Two notepads contain notes on number theory; used as exercise books

Notes on history of calculus, abstract algebra, theoretical physics, hilbert's problems

Contains handwritten notes on work with Born; otherwise blank.

Contains list of squares, magic squares, and an index to a list of Indian Academy of science volumes.

Draft notes for UGC lectures on number curiosities, bibliographic notes on algebraic number theory, leelavathi by bhaskaracharya, and non linear indeterminate equations.

Research notes on algebraic number theory and magic squares

Lecture notes on electrostatics

Contains translation of German books on Quantum theory and wave mechanics by G Wentzel; Lecture Notes on quantum electrodynamics, Pauli, Dirac, Yukawa, cosmic rays, nuclear decay, Fritz Zwicky, stellar astrophysics, many-body problem, John Von Neumann, differential geometry, Solvay congress, and relativity.

Handwritten copy of chapter III from the second edition of the book from 1920.

Handwritten excerpted notes in German on the Ring electron, with additional notes on its singularities, in English.

Referee reports for a paper by M.K. Sen, "On Pseudoideals of semi-groups," for the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, together with relevant bibliographic notes on relevant mathematical literature in ring and group theory

Loose notes on the Heaviside function, c.1950; magic squares; spherical trigonometry; copy of a preprint, T.S. Santhanam and A.R. Tekumalla, "Quantum Mechanics in Finite Dimensions" (1974)

Bibliographic notes on complex analysis and partial differential equations; superconductivity; contiuum mechanics; computational physics; topological properties of Feynman diagrams; Hilbert space formalism in quantum mechanics; dynamics and stability of rockets and satellites.

Valedictory Address to Central college Mathematical Society

St. Joseph's College Mathematics and Science Association

Lecture delivered at the Maharaja's College, Mysore

Lecture delivered at the Seshadripuram High School

Seventeenth Conference of Indian Mathematical Society

Address to Geological Society

Summary of a lecture on how to holiday on the moon.

Mathematics Exhibition, Central College

Delivered during the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of the Raman Effect

Handwritten draft of ideas and definitions.

The Indian Science Congress Popular Science Lectures

Delivered at the seminar on Ballistics, Institute of Armament Technology, Pune

In connection with the 89th birth anniversary of C. V. Raman

Handwritten manuscript of an address to be delivered at a Ganapathi festival at a hostel.

Delivered at the launch of a book on Prof Krishna Sastry.

Summary of Popular lecture; includes handwritten draft.

Delivered at made at a seminar organised by Karnataka State Hockey Association

Handwritten draft -- part of Department of Mathematics, University of Poona.

Delivered at the unveiling of the portrait of M. Maddaiya

Delivered at the ceremony organised by Citizens of Bangalore

Paper read at the Symposium on 'Generalised Geometry' at the Hyderabad Conference

Address delivered at the Symposium on 'Quantum mechanics' during the Science Congress session

Inaugural Address delivered before the Mathematical Society of St. Joseph's College, Bangalore.

Handwritten notes and drafts of lectures also delivered as part of a series of lectures at a Delhi conference.

Summary of Address of Presidents of Sections, 45th session of Indian Science Congress

Reprinted from The Mathematical Student, Vol. 1, No. 3

Reprinted from The Mathematical Student, Vol 28, No. 3&4

Presidential Address given at the 26th conference of the Indian Mathematical Society.

Handwritten notes and draft of the lecture.

Handwritten notes and drafts for lectures on relativity, quantum mechanics, symmetry etc.

Delivered at IISc.

Handwritten drafts -- summarising address on the subject of abstract mathematics.

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Malayalam article published in Vijnanakairali

Handwritten draft.

The Mathematics newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 6

Commemorative volume, University of Mysore

Handwritten draft of a biographical profile on Rao Bahadur B. Venkatesachar.

Handwritten draft of a lecture on number curiosities, contains Kannada translations of mathematical terms and definitions.

Invitation to the Delegates of the Indian Science Congress to meet the Chancellor of the University of Mysore

Invitation to Foundation-Stone Laying Ceremony of the Laboratory Building

Invitation from The Maharaja of Mysore to B.S. Madhava Rao to Attend the Dasara Festivities at the Mysore Palace

Notice of Special Meeting of the Council of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Invitation to The Inaugural Address of Science Association

Symposium on Particles and Fields

Invitation to the One Day Symposium on Fifty Years of Mathematical Education in India

Invitation to the Seminar on "Unsolved Problems in Physics"

Invitation to Meet Prof. J.M. Ziman, F.R.S., University of Bristol, U.K.

Invitation to Lecture on "Methods and Procedures Applied in Ground Water Resources Evaluation in Karnataka State"; attached is a handwritten note on ground water.

Material Related to Non Linear Ballistics Seminar

Invitation to the Felicitations to Prof. V. G. Iyer

Invitations to two lectures at the Raman Research Institute

Circulars and notices of various meetings and symposia of the Indian Mathematical Society

Invitation to Lecture on "Raman Effect - The Discovery and After"

Notification on Golden Jubilee Celebration Conference on "Statistics: Applications and New Directions"

Invitations to the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Mysore Lower Secondary Examination Certificate of B.S. Madhava Rao

Personal Secondary School Certificate of B.S. Madhava Rao

Personal Intermediate Examination in Arts Certificate of B.S. Madhava Rao

Personal Bachelor of Science Certificate of B.S. Madhava Rao from University of Mysore

Master of Science - Pure Mathematics, Certificate from University of Calcutta

Letter of Recommendation for Foreign Scholarship to B.S. Madhava Rao from C.V. Raman

Presented to B.S. Madhav Rao by Students of the Engineering College. The address is printed on a silk cloth. Item is extremely fragile.

Newspaper Clipping of Kannada Article on B.S. Madhava Rao

Doctor of Science - Mathematics, Certificate from University of Calcutta.

Newspaper clipping of photographs of B.S. Madhava Rao at the Second Mysore State Amateur Athletic Meet

Clippings and Photocopy of Newspaper Articles in English and Kannada -- Honouring B.S. Madhava Rao

Memos and notices regarding emoluments post B.S. Madhava Rao's retirement from Central College

Certificate to commemorate election as Ordinary fellow of the national Institute.

Newspaper clipping of an article by S.H. Subba Rao mentioning Mysore University and B.S. Madhava Rao

Newspaper clipping of a tribute to B. S. Madhava Rao by Vatsala Vendatam

Address presented by a batch of students from Central College in 1951-52. Address is printed on paper.

Address presented by president and members of entertainment committee on behalf of citizens of Bangalore. Address is printed on silk cloth, mounted on a glass and metal frame.

Original and Copy of Address Presented to B.S. Madhava Rao by members of the Entertainment Committee, on behalf of the Citizens of Bangalore.

Resumes of B.S. Madhava Rao over the years

Newspaper clippings of B.S. Madhava Rao's presentation to the Section of Mathematics and of a reaction to the same by Prof. S. M. Nikolsky, Russian mathematician

Letter Tribute to B.S. Madhava Rao in English and Kannada

Driving Licence of B.S. Madhava Rao

Silver Jubilee Souvenir Booklet of the Mysore State Hockey Association