Box MS-013 Box 1

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.

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.

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.