Box MS-013 Box 11

Content Description From the Collection: This accession consists of papers belonging to B S Madhava Rao. Bangalore Srinivasarao Madhava Rao was a mathematician and physicist who was a professor and later principal of Central College, Bangalore. He had worked with Max Born on non-linear field theory. He then went on to research and publish works related to theoretical physics. He collaborated with C V Raman and Homi J Bhabha. He was awarded the Ramanujan Prize of Madras University in 1965. Rao worked as Professor of Ballistics at...

Content Description From the Collection: This accession consists of papers belonging to B S Madhava Rao. Bangalore Srinivasarao Madhava Rao was a mathematician and physicist who was a professor and later principal of Central College, Bangalore. He had worked with Max Born on non-linear field theory. He then went on to research and publish works related to theoretical physics. He collaborated with C V Raman and Homi J Bhabha. He was awarded the Ramanujan Prize of Madras University in 1965. Rao worked as Professor of Ballistics at...

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Contains notes on linear algebra as well as lecture notes.

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Excerpted notes on ordinary differential equations, complex analysis, and magic square.

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Research notes in French, on classical mechanics, integrable systems, draft letter Zeitschrift für Physik on Liouville and Stäckels theorems relating to a mechanical system which cites Vrkljan, Hamilton-Jacobi equation, classical mechanics, partial differential equation, Levi-Civita, quadratic forms, Hamiltonian dynamics, German, draft paper sent to Mathematische Annalen, Operator theory. The reverse pages of the notebook contain lecture notes on Stark effect and quantum mechanics.

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Contains calculations and notes on number curiosities and sums of squares.

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous notes on quantum field theory. Includes biography of Homi J. Bhaba; drafts of letters to Michael Martin Nieto, Samarendra Nath Biswas, draft text of talk on textbook about the role of mathematics in science dated 1975, UGC lectures on number curiosities, draft letter to Suraj N. Gupta, bibliographic notes on: PLN Rao's problem, spaceflight, mathematical games, martin gardner, number theory, linear indeterminate equations, nuclear fusion, group theory in solid state physics,...

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Research notes on photons, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, entropy, super conductivity, liquid helium, thermodynamics. Also includes notes on Richard Feyman; notes on magic squares.

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Exercise book on indeterminate equations and number theory.

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Contains research notes on linear indeterminate equations, Brahmagupta, Lagrange, Euler, and magic square.

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Bibliographic notes on quantum field theory, particle physics, astrophysics, mathematical analysis, graph theory, nuclear physics, and mathematical biology.

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Contains research notes on mathematical game problems, miscellaneous mathematical problems and excerpted notes from journals on number theory.

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Excerpted notes on number theory.