Date of Estb.: 1967

Ramanujan Institute For Advanced Study in Mathematics¸ Chennai

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Earlier to establishment of the Department of research in Mathematics by the University of Madras¸ it encouraged young men of promise to undertake research studies in Mathematics in the University. The first of them was the late Srinivasa Ramanujan¸ who was given a special research scholarship for a number of years¸ while he was pursuing his prolific work on the Theory of Numbers with Professor Hardy at Cambridge. He was offered a professorship in the Department of Mathematics¸ University of Madras¸ after his return from England. He could not¸ however¸ take up this position owing to his serious illness. His untimely death after his return to India deprived the University of the chance of making him the first Professor of Mathematics and starting the Department of Mathematics then. The extraordinary abilities of Srinivasa Ramanujan¸ F.R.S. helped the revival of an interest in this part of the country in Mathematics.

    The next student who received a foreign scholarship from the Madras University for higher studies in the subject was Sri R.Vaidyanathaswamy. He held it for a little over two years and he also got a scholarship to continue his work after his return to India. Dr.R.Vaidyanathaswamy¸ M.A.¸ Ph.D. (London)¸ D.Sc. (Edin.)¸ was appointed Reader by the Madras University in 1927 to develop the Department of Mathematics as a centre for research. He served the Department for 25 years till his retirement in 1952. From 1952¸ Dr.V.S.Krishnan¸ M.A.¸ M.Sc.¸ B.T. (Madras)¸ D.Sc. (Paris)¸ was in charge of the Department as Reader in Mathematics. The history of the Department's activities during the first thirty years may be roughly divided into four periods 1927 to 1936¸ 1937 to 1948¸ 1949 to 1952 and 1952 to 1957.