Today (August 31, 1950) is the Memorial Day of the great Indian mathematician Subbaiah Sivasankaranarayana Pillai who attracted the attention of many experts in number theory.
Subbaiah Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (SS Pillai) was born on April 5, 1901, in Vallam, near Courtallam in the Nellai district. He lost his mother at the age of one. When he lost his father in the final year of school, a teacher named Shastriyar supported and encouraged him. He then left his intermediate class at Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, and completed his degree at Maharaja's College, Trivandrum. SS Pillai was awarded a Scholarship for Mathematical Research at the University of Chennai and then engaged in Mathematical Research with renowned Mathematical Professors Ananda Rao and Vaithiyanathaswamy. Later, while working at Annamalai University, he continued his research in the mathematics department of arithmetic.
The heights he reached in this research are astounding. He was the first mathematician to receive a D.Sc degree in Mathematics from the then University of Madras. Child Their lifestyle is very simple. The child does not even like to line and tie them. For a foreign guest who comes to his house, he puts a leaf on the ground and treats the food according to the Tamil system. But he did not aspire to any glory. It is noteworthy that he was not even a member of any of the mathematics and science institutes. The child has a letter of recommendation for C.V Raman's Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences. K. Ramachandra, a mathematician, once spoke to an Indian mathematician and said that he was surprised that the child did not know them.
Wrote 76 research papers. They were mostly about number theory and Diophantus approximation. He made history by making an important discovery about the Waring problem in the number theory of the Waring problem. In 1909 David Hilbert established a basic theorem on the Waring problem. Hilbert-Waring theorem: For every positive integer k there is a fractional positive integer g (k) with the following characteristic: Any positive integer can be expressed as the sum of the k-layers with the number g (k). That is, g (k) is the sum of all the k-layers with the lowest number of integers.
The name child prime numbers have stuck to the kind of prime numbers he invented. Warnings were the ones who unraveled the mystery of conjecture and found the answer that stunned all the mathematical geniuses who could not solve it for three hundred years. Sir said that such a talented young man should be brought to his university anyway. CB Ramasamy aspired and tried hard. But Dr. SS Pillai's thinking was different. He was fascinated by the quiet Oxford environment of the Annamalai for his arithmetic research. It was in this context that Warnings found the answer to the hypothesis and thereby became world-famous.
He did not want to leave Annamalai as there were more books to read and more scholars to practice. The SS child's family is a little less than the middle class. At the same time, he was also born Sangoja. The world he saw was hard work and arithmetic. Keeping him under control is like keeping a storm in a box. What to come when a princely diwan is called to keep the betel nut? All those who owed him what to do after studying were very confused. Then somehow the great men and relatives of the Red Fort came together to Annamalai and staged a siege struggle to persuade the child.
By the way, Dr. SS Pillai came to Thiruvananthapuram in 1940-41 and joined the work. Dr. Pillai's life begins. The next year he joined the job, leaving him for the Science Congress in the North and the Travancore government elected another. This happened when Sir CP went abroad. That's all, Dr. Pillai immediately resigned from his job, wrote a paper to the Diwan, put it in the mail, and boarded the Red Fort train. Knowing this, Dr. Pillai's friend and German mathematician Dr. FW Levine invited him to the University of Calcutta where he was working. The then Vice-Chancellor Siyama Prasad Mukherjee also gave full support to Dr. Pillai. International mathematical organizations have praised his research. His name became famous all over the world of mathematics. Dr. S.S. Pillai's Theory of Number is a formula that has become permanent in mathematics.
In a 12-volume book written by Hardy about Ramanuja, one volume was written about him. Whenever one thinks of Dr. Pillai, one is reminded of the lines of Dr. SS Pillai, the world-famous author of the world-renowned genius Dr. E. D. Bell, in the world-famous magazine Nature. The achievement of that scholar adds pride to us whenever we see the nameplate of Dr. SS Pillai Street in the Red Fort where he was born.
At the height of his fame, Dr. SSP was invited to preside over a conference in San Francisco. He tragically died in a plane crash in Cairo on August 31, 1950, while attending a conference at Princeton University in the United States. There is no doubt that it is a great loss to the Indian mathematical sector. Mathematical geniuses who attended the San Francisco conference paid tribute to him. His portrait was unveiled at the conference.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti.
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