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Ganesh Prasad was an Indian mathematician who specialised in the theory of potentials, theory of functions of a real variable, Fourier series and the theory of surfaces.
He was trained at the Universities of Cambridge and Göttingen and on return to India he helped develop the culture of mathematical research in India. After teaching at the Kayasth Pathshala, Allahabad, and at the Muir Central College, Allahabad, for about two years, he proceeded to Cambridge for higher studies and research.
While at Cambridge he became acquainted with mathematicians like E.W. Hobson and Andrew Forsyth. Ganesh Prasad was the Ras Behari Ghosh Chair of Applied Mathematics of Calcutta University (he was the first person to occupy this Chair ) from 1914 to 1917 and Hardinge Professor of Mathematics in the same University from 1923 till his death on 9 March 1935.
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Ganesh Prasad was born on the 15 November 1876, at the small town of Ballia in U.P. He belonged to a well-to-do family. After passing his matriculation examination in 1891 with a first division, he studied at the Muir Central College, Allahabad. From there he graduated with a First class Honours in Mathematics in 1895. Subsequently, he took M.A. degrees in Mathematics from the Universities of Allahabad and Calcutta and in 1898 was awarded the D.Sc. degree from the Allahabad University for his original contributions in mathematical research. After a brief stint as lecturer at the Kayasth Pathshala, Allahabad, in 1899 he obtained a Government of India scholarship to go to England for pursuing higher studies and research in Mathematics. …MyTopic Alert
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Prof. Ganesh Prasad
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PRASAD, G. Prof. Ganesha Prasad. Nature135, 644 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135644a0
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