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Another class of numbers Kaprekar described are Kaprekar numbers. [10] A Kaprekar number is a positive integer with the property that if it is squared, then its representation can be partitioned into two positive integer parts whose sum is equal to the original number (e.g. 45, since 45 2 =2025, and 20+25=45, also 9, 55, 99 etc.)
From 1957 to 1966, the Department of Mathematics and the Ramanujan Institute of Mathematics functioned as independent bodies under the University of Madras. [4] In 1967 the University Grants Commission (India) proposed to make the Department of Mathematics of the University of Madras into one of its Centres of Advanced Study. In the same year ...
The current quiz mistress is Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann. Presently, every contest is composed of five rounds with the following rules: Round 1 — The round of fundamental questions. Each contesting school has to answer 4 Biology, 4 Chemistry, 4 Physics and 4 Mathematics questions. A wrongly answered question may be carried over as a bonus.
Saraswati P. Venkataraman Sastri (IAST: P. Veṅkatarāmaṇ Śāstrī), hieratically titled H.H. Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Bharatikrishna Tirtha (IAST: Jagadguru Śaṅkarācārya Svāmī Bhāratīkṛṣṇa Tīrtha) (1884–1960), was Shankaracharya and officiating pontiff of Dwaraka Math, and then the 143rd Shankaracharya and supreme pontiff of Govardhana Math in Puri in the Indian ...
By using the first 21 terms to compute an approximation of π, he obtains a value correct to 11 decimal places (3.14159265359). [22] The value of 3.1415926535898, correct to 13 decimals, is sometimes attributed to Madhava, [23] but may be due to one of his followers.
Hannah M. Fry HonFREng FIMA FIET (born 21 February 1984) is a British mathematician, author and broadcaster. As of 2025 she is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge [3] and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). [4]
In an era when extremely few women received PhDs in mathematics, [7] [3] Beatty supervised the mathematical PhDs of Mary Fisher and Muriel Kennett Wales. [ 1 ] Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Walter Kohn , a student at the university while Beatty was a dean, expressed his appreciation in 1998 to the dean when accepting the prize for his ...
Rany Jazayerli (born June 14, 1975) is a Chicago-area dermatologist and co-founder of and writer for Baseball Prospectus. He developed the statistical concept of Pitcher Abuse Points (PAP), which relates to high pitch counts in baseball. Jazayerli is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and University of Michigan Medicine.