B. S. Madhava Rao is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists B. S. Madhava Rao as Indian mathematical physicist (1900-1987).
B. S. Madhava Rao was born at Bengaluru in 1900. His recorded nationality is Dominion of India. He studied at University of Calcutta.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the foundations of mathematics were under open attack, and set theory and logic became urgent questions.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Dominion of India matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
B. S. Madhava Rao died in 1987, aged 87. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
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