Ratan Shankar Mishra

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Ratan Shankar Mishra
Born(1918-10-15)15 October 1918
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Ratan Shankar Mishra (1918โ€“1999) was an Indian mathematician and academic who was known for his solutions to the Unified fluid theory of

Banares Hindu University, Varanasi (1965-1968).[1] He was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.[3]

Biography

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Ratan Shankar Mishra was born on 15 October 1918 at

Lucknow University.[4] He continued his studies at Delhi University and secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in 1947, the first PhD awarded by the university in Mathematics.[4] His Doctor of Science degree (DSc) came from Lucknow University in 1952,[1] again the first DSc degree awarded by Lucknow University.[4]

Mishra had already started his career while doing his doctoral research by joining the faculty of Mathematics at

Kanpur University in academic matters.[7]

Ratan Shankar Mishra died on 23 August 1999, at the age of 80.[1]

Legacy

Mishra specialised in differential geometry, relativity and fluid mechanics and his contributions to these fields have been documented.

Differentiable manifolds and Almost Contact Metric Manifolds.[1]

Several academic and administrative reforms have been credited to Mishra during his tenure at the University of Allahabad. He guided several mathematicians for their PhD, DSc and DPhil research and introduced many new subjects such as Modern Algebra,

Abstract Algebra at the graduate level, the first time in India the subject was taught at the graduate level. He was also instrumental in conducting conferences and seminars,[11] with financial assistance from the University Grants Commission where mathematicians from India and abroad like Jack P. Tull[12] moderated the proceedings.[5] It is also reported that the department of mathematics had the highest number of faculty members during his tenure as its head.[5] Apart from several articles,[13] he is the author of twelve text books and a report for Indian Science Congress Association published under the name, Progress of Mathematics - A decade (1963-1972).[4]

Positions

Mishra's efforts were behind the establishment of the Tensor Society of India, a mathematical society started in 1983, of which he was the founder president.[6] He was associated with the Indian Science Congress Association for a number of years and served as a member of its executive council, as the sectional president in 1965, as the general secretary (1968-1971) and as the president[1] in 1974.[4] He served the National Academy of Sciences, India as its council member, as the president of the Physical Sciences section (1965-1966) and as its vice president (1969-1979).[4] He was the president of the Indian Mathematical Society from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the executive council of the

Magsaysay Award in their mathematical science research committee.[4] He also chaired the All India panel for writing text books in mathematics and sat on the committee of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).[4]

Mishra was also active in academic circles and held the presidency of the Gorakhpur University Teachers' Association in 1958 and was the hostel warden during his tenure there.[4] While working for the Lucknow University, he was the president of the Teachers' Association (1975) and the Alumni Association.[4] He was the president of the National Academy of Mathematics, Gorakhpur[4] and was a founder member of the Society for Scientific Values.[14] He was the editor in chief of Allhabad University journal, Progress of mathematics,[15] editorial advisor of Forum of Mathematics journal and a member of the editorial boards of Research Journal in Science of Kanpur University[4] and the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.[1]

Awards and honours

Ratan Shankar Mishra was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA),

Czech-American mathematician bequeathed his unfinished problem on field equations to R. S. Mishra, by way of a note left on his death bed and Mishra completed the problem, text of which runs into about 100 pages.[4]

He received the Banerjee Prize from Lucknow University in 1952 for the best research work.

Teachers' Day Award, Shikha Shiromani Alankaran in 1994.[4] On 5 May 1995, Banares Hindu University honoured him as the chief guest of their Teachers' Day functions.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Insa profile". Indian National Science Academy. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "List of Vice Chancellors". Lucknow University. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "IAPS Bio". Indian Academy of Physical Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d "Mathematics and Mathematicians at Prayag". Academia. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Tensor Society of India". Tensor Society of India. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Kanpur University". Kanpur University. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  8. ^ "R. S. Mishra - articles". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  9. ^ G. P. Pokhariyal; R. S. Mishra (28 September 1970). "Curvature Tensors and their Relativistics Significance" (PDF). Google Scholar. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  10. ISSN 0019-5588
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  11. ^ "National Conference" (PDF). Banares Hindu University. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  12. S2CID 121316306. Retrieved 27 May 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  13. ^ "Worldcat search". Worldcat. 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  14. ^ "Society for Scientific Values". Society for Scientific Values. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  15. OCLC 1762981
    . Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  16. ^ "Past Fellows". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  17. ^ "Deceased Fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2015. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.

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