Box MS-013 Box 2

Recommendation letter for M.V. Jambunathan, candidate for a professor's post at Mysore University.

Sends greetings and thanks for hospitality during a stay in Bangalore, encloses a letter from his daughter, who sends thanks for shells sent to her by Madhava Rao's children.

Regarding Madhava Rao's election to a position, possibly to the vice-presidency of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Chides Madhava Rao for not writing. Sends news about an interview with C.V. Raman regarding a council position with the Indian Academy of Sciences, and his own travels to Mysore. Mentions a request made by the principal of Central College, Bangalore to the vice-chancellor ahead of a visit by the University Grants Commission for a cyclotron, cost of which was estimated at five lakhs. Request was apparently laughed at.

Sends congratulations on his daughter Leelavathi's marriage to Chi. D.R. Jagannatha Rao.

Correspondence regarding a visit by Brigadier and Mrs. Thadani to Mysore, sends greetings to Madhava Rao and his brother Bheema Rao. Also contains a letter from Thadani informing Madhava Rao of a change in plans and that he will not be visiting Mysore.

First letter confirms receipt of a circular and promises to send a biographical sketch and a portrait, notifies Madhava Rao of his joining Peshawar University (Pakistan), wishes to organise a joint conference of Indian and Pakistani mathematicians, hopes for Madhava Rao's support. Second letter sends wishes on Madhava Rao's daughter's wedding, expresses sentiments regarding old friendships and difficulties at having had to start over in Pakistan.

Sends greeting and congratulations on Madhava Rao having been elected to preside over the mathematics section of the India Science Congress in 1958, informs Madhava Rao of his new job as a signal and telecommunications engineers with the railway services of the Government of India, at the rank of Class I Rs 350-1100, with a starting salary of Rs 380.

Sends greetings and apologies for having been unable to meet Madhava Rao at the railway station on his departure from Bangalore.

Request for letters of recommendation for PhD studies at Chicago, Columbia, Princeton, Duke and Brown, proposes to work on complex variables and elliptic functions.

Note of appreciation from members of the Teacher's Union for Madhava Rao's service as President.

Letter and enclosed statement from a group of researchers in Japan, working on elementary particle theory and theoretical nuclear physics, regarding the peaceful use of atomic energy in Japan, and related legislation recently passed by the Diet.

Correspondence regarding remuneration for administration of examinations in Indian university, and regarding Madhava Rao's birthdate.

References work on inequalities approvingly, asks about the possibility of stating corresponding integral inequalities.

Sends thanks for invitation to Madhava Rao's daughter's wedding, sends best wishes to bride and groom.

Correspondence regarding Vijayaraghavan's travels and mathematical work in the USA, to Chicago, Princeton, Stanford, and Fiske University, in Nashville, Tennessee, and also the possbility of Madhava Rao applying for a Fulbright Travel Award to cover a sabbatical year in the US, at Chicago, Princeton, or Fiske.

Forwards papers in German, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, regarding a linearisation of the Dirac relativistic wave equation, and in French, from Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, regarding Poynting vectors for scalar and pseudoscalar mesons.

Correspondence regarding reprints from the Institute of Statistics at the University of Uppsala. Also contains a letter of thanks from Wold for his hospitality during their recent visit to Bangalore and Mysore.

Sends thanks for letter notifying him of Madhava Rao's paper on Pauli identities, regrets having been previously unaware of it, apologises for not making reference to it in his own article.

Proposes changes in the quantum mechanics syllabus for the MSc at Madras University, notes difficulty in finding students and doubts whether offering such a course is worthwhile, suggests instead including a course on hydrodynamics or group theory.

Communicates a paper by G.H. Tewari, as well as one of his own, on a conjecture of Ramanujan.

Corrrespondence regarding A.S. Nalini, a preuniversity college student and mental calculator. Includes several question papers set by Madhava Rao, his answer sheets, as well as Madhava Rao's opinion that such "numerical gymnastics" do not indicate more general mathematical aptitude.

Forwards a letter from Madhava Rao to the Technical Committee of the India Statistical Institute, not enclosed.

Requests Madhava Rao's assistance in applying for a position at the Institute of Armament Studies, Kirkee, on a higher salary than advertised.

Proposes conference regarding a salary increase for university teachers in Mysore and Central College, Bangalore, and suggests no non-university candidate be considered for vice chancellorships.

Communicates resolution passed by the Physical Culture Committee at Central College, Bangalore expressing appreciation for Madhava Rao's service as retired principal and president of the Committee.

Sends thanks for Madhava Rao's offer to review his work, sent to the Bangalore Press.

Correspondence regarding a function honouring Madhava Rao on his retirement as Principal of Central College, Bangalore.

Requests that Madhava Rao delivers lectures on the "elementary theory of relativistic wave equations" at the MSc level, at the University of Madras.

Unable to convene a special meeting of council to record the Indian Academy of Science's appreciation of Madhava Rao's service due to his imminent departure, sends best wishes for his journey to Poona.

Communicates travel plans and address in Poona.

Sends greetings and details about his stay at the Indian Academy of Sciences, his wife's health, and the status of the Defence Science Conference.

Will complete his MBA at Harvard Business School in June 1957, has received offers from American companies doing business in India, but intends to work in the steel industry. Has listed Madhava Rao as a reference in job applications and for this purpose encloses his CV.

Correspondence regarding the 1957 Indian Science Congress and the annual session of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Communicates travel plans to Bombay via Poona, requests a meeting with Madhava Rao either at Poona or Kirkee.

Leaving for Chicago, USA under the India Wheat Loan Educational Exchange Program, requests meeting at Poona.

Forwards two copies of his book on "viloma ganitha," entited "Raja Ganitham on Osmani Hisab," requests Madhava Rao's help in popularising his methods among the delegates of the 1960 Indian Mathematical Congress due to be held in Chandigarh. Mentions a "viloma ganitha yajna" involving the mental extraction of cube roots to nine significant figues, due to his blindness caused by cataract.

Request for recommendation letter for PhD study in the USA. Encloses Madhava Rao's letter of reply.

Responds to comments made in a reviewer report of his PhD thesis submitted to Calcutta University, entitled "On Ship Waves and Wave Resistance," requests a copy of the report, speculates as to the possibility of experimentally verifying results at the Naval Architecture Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and further requests references on Japanese and Soviet work on ship resistance.

Notifies Madhava Rao that he may he unable to address the meeting of the Indian Mathematical Society on "Arithmetical discrete subgroups of Lie groups," due to arriving in India the day before the meeting.

Correspondence regarding selection committee membership at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for professorships in mathematics.

Sends congraulations on Madhava Rao's new appointment, says he has nothing to contribute to any discussions regarding the Indian Mathematical Society, invites Madhava Rao to lunch at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay.

Forwards question papers for the BSc and MSc in mathematical physics at Andhra University, not enclosed.

Requests a recommendation letter for Dr. Veldanda V. Rao, asks about research, teaching, and his spoken English.

Requests advice and a meeting regarding PhD applications, as well as a recommendation letter for a Research Assistantship in the UK.

Sends thanks for preprints and program of the Jubilee Celebration of the Indian Mathematical Society.

Sends information about graduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley about advanced topics in statistics, provides news about visits of mutual acquaintances to the USA, and sends regards to those in India.

Mentions a paper entitled "Some mathematical aspects of high altitude gunnery," requests permission to send the paper for Madhava Rao's opinion and in order for it to be submitted to an appropriate journal.