GUWAHATI, Dec 28 - The Assam Academy of Mathematics and the Dept of Mathematics, Cotton University jointly organised a programme on mathematics at Sudmersen Hall here recently, said a delayed press release.
On the occasion, the 21st RC Gupta Endowment Lecture on History of Mathematics was delivered by Dr Anant Wasudev Vyavahare, retired professor of M Mahata College, Nagpur.
The meeting was presided over by Dr Ram Chandra Deka, president of AAM and inaugurated by Dr Bhabesh Chandra Goswami, Vice Chancellor of Cotton University. Rajiv Bhuyan, Head of the Department of Mathematics of Cotton University welcomed the audience. He spoke on the life of mathematics legend Srinivas Ramanujan.
Dr Jnanjyoti Sarma, general secretary, AAM, welcomed the gathering and particularly the prize-winning students hailing from different parts of the State to receive their awards they had won in Mathematics Olympiad, Matheletics and other competitions organised by AAM at different times of the year. He also declared that the Subratananda Duarah Gold Medal for the year 2018 has gone to Ayan Nath of KV of Tezpur University. Dr Duarah was known as Assam�s Ramanujan and died abroad when he was just 32.
Dr Tarakeswar Chaudhury, retired professor of mathematics of the erstwhile Cotton College and an architect behind the AAM, narrated how AAM came into being in 1986 at Cotton College. He recalled that the very next year AAM celebrated the birth centenary of Ramanujan.
In the presidential address, Dr Deka said the State also can boast of �Assam Mathematics�, thanks to the efforts of Dandiram Dutta who had collected ethnomathematics of Assam and kept it for posterity.