Box MS-013 Box 12

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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Biographical and anecdotal notes on Bhabha.

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Loose notes contain handwritten draft of a talk on Ballistics; excerpted note from 'The World of Walter Ernst - The rise and fall of German Science' by K. Mendelsohn.

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Research notes on quantum field theory and Harishchandra. Includes an abstract of a lecture on quantum field theory; also mentions Bhabha.

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Contains bibliographic notes on differential geometry, topology, theoretical and experimental physics and relativity. Includes notes on magic squares on the reverse side.

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Excerpted notes on Electricity and magnetism by J. H. Fewkes and John Yarwood.

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Excerpted notes on quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, dynamics, Hamiltonian dynamics, and partial differential equations.

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Two notepads contain notes on number theory; used as exercise books

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Notes on history of calculus, abstract algebra, theoretical physics, hilbert's problems

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Contains handwritten notes on work with Born; otherwise blank.

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Contains list of squares, magic squares, and an index to a list of Indian Academy of science volumes.

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Draft notes for UGC lectures on number curiosities, bibliographic notes on algebraic number theory, leelavathi by bhaskaracharya, and non linear indeterminate equations.

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Research notes on algebraic number theory and magic squares

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Lecture notes on electrostatics

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Contains translation of German books on Quantum theory and wave mechanics by G Wentzel; Lecture Notes on quantum electrodynamics, Pauli, Dirac, Yukawa, cosmic rays, nuclear decay, Fritz Zwicky, stellar astrophysics, many-body problem, John Von Neumann, differential geometry, Solvay congress, and relativity.