{{Short description|Indian American mathematician (1907-1995)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Sarvadaman Chowla | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | birth_date = {{birth date|1907|10|22|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age| 1995 |12|10|1907|10|12|df=y}} | death_place = Laramie, Wyoming, U.S. | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Institute for Advanced Study<br>University of Kansas<br>University of Colorado at Boulder<br>Penn State University<br>Government College, Lahore | alma_mater = Cambridge University<br>Government College, Lahore | doctoral_advisor = John Edensor Littlewood | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = John Friedlander | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | religion = | footnotes = }} '''Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla''' (22 October 1907 – 10 December 1995) was an English-American mathematician, specializing in number theory.
==Early life== He was born in London, since his father, Gopal Chowla, a professor of mathematics in Lahore, was then studying in Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sarvadaman Chowla - Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chowla/|access-date=2021-04-05|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Raymond G. Ayoub, James G. Huard, and Kenneth S. Williams|date=May 1998|title=Sarvadaman Chowla (1907–1995)|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/199805/comm-chowla.pdf|journal=Notices of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|volume=45|issue=5}}</ref> His family returned to India, where he received his master's degree in 1928 from the Government College in Lahore. In 1931 he received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he studied under J. E. Littlewood. <ref name="Notices of the AMS obituary"> {{cite journal | last = Ayoub | first = Raymond G. |author2=James G. Huard |author3=Kenneth S. Williams |date=May 1998 | title = Sarvadaman Chowla (1907-1995) | journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society | volume = 45 | issue = 5 | pages = 594–598 | publisher = American Mathematical Society | location = Providence, RI | issn = 0002-9920 | oclc = 1480366 | url = http://www.ams.org/notices/199805/comm-chowla.pdf | accessdate = 2008-05-16 }} </ref>{{Rp|594}} He was born into a Punjabi Hindu Arora family.
==Career and awards== Chowla then returned to India, where he taught at several universities, becoming head of mathematics at Government College, Lahore in 1936.<ref name="Notices of the AMS obituary" />{{Rp|594}} During the difficulties arising from the partition of India in 1947, he left for the United States.<ref>{{MacTutor Biography|id=Chowla}}</ref> There he visited the Institute for Advanced Study until the fall of 1949, then taught at the University of Kansas in Lawrence until moving to the University of Colorado in 1952.<ref name="Notices of the AMS obituary" />{{Rp|594}} He moved to Penn State in 1963 as a research professor, where he remained until his retirement in 1976.<ref name="Notices of the AMS obituary" />{{Rp|594}} He was a member of the Indian National Science Academy.<ref name="Notices of the AMS obituary" />{{Rp|595}}
Among his contributions are a number of results which bear his name. These include the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, the Ankeny–Artin–Chowla congruence, the Chowla–Mordell theorem, and the Chowla–Selberg formula, and the Mian–Chowla sequence.
==Works== * {{cite book |last= Chowla |first= Sarvadaman |editor= James G. Huard |editor2= Kenneth S. Williams |title= The Collected Papers of Sarvadaman Chowla |publisher= Centre de Recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal |location= Montréal |oclc= 43730416 |year= 2000 }} * {{cite book | last = Chowla | first = S. | title = Riemann Hypothesis and Hilbert's Tenth Problem | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 1965 | isbn = 978-0-677-00140-1 | oclc = 15428640}}
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==External links== * {{MathGenealogy|id=12369}}
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