Summary
Indulata L. Sukla (7 March 1944 – 30 June 2022)[1] was an Indian academic, who was professor of mathematics for more than three decades at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha.
Indulata Sukla | |
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| Born | 7 March 1944 |
| Died | 30 June 2022 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | M.P.C. College, Baripada (B.Sc.) Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (M.Sc.) Jabalpur University, Jabalpur (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Employer(s) | Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha (Former Professor of Mathematics) |
| Known for | Number Theory, Cryptography, Analysis |
| Spouse | Ananta Charan Sukla[citation needed] |
She did her schooling from Maharani Prem Kumari Girls’ School and B.Sc. with Mathematics Honours from M.P.C. College, Baripada. She completed her M.Sc. in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack in 1966, and had a brief stint as a lecturer in M.P.C. College,[citation needed] before moving to the University of Jabalpur with a CSIR Fellowship to pursue Ph.D. under the supervision of Tribikram Pati.[2] While pursuing her researches, she joined Sambalpur University in November 1970 as a lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences, and continued there till her retirement in March 2004.[citation needed]
She is the author of the textbook Number Theory and Its Applications to Cryptography (Cuttack: Kalyani Publishers, 2000).[2][3] In her research, she worked with English mathematician Brian Kuttner on Fourier Series.[2][4] She was a Life Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS).[citation needed]
Awards and honours edit
The Orissa Mathematical Society (OMS) gave her the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in Number Theory, Cryptography and Analysis. She received the award from Professor Ramachandran Balasubramanian, Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai at the 42nd Annual Conference of OMS held at Vyasanagar Autonomous College, Jajpur Road, Orissa on 7 February 2015.[2][3]
Selected publications edit
- Sukla, Indulata (1982), "A Tauberian theorem for strong Abel summability type", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 84 (2): 185–191, doi:10.2307/2043662, JSTOR 2043662, MR 0637166.
- Kuttner, B.; Sukla, I. L. (1985), "On summability methods", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 97 (2): 189–193, doi:10.1017/S0305004100062745, MR 0771813.
References edit
- ^ "Retd Sambalpur University Math Prof Indulata Sukla Passes Away". odishabytes. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Mathematician Indulata Sukla Honoured", The Pioneer, 9 February 2015.
- ^ a b "Mathematician Awarded for Number Theory", The New Indian Express, 9 February 2015, archived from the original on 25 July 2015.
- ^ Kuttner & Sukla (1985).