In the history of mathematics, Jamal Nazrul Islam is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jamal Nazrul Islam as Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist (1939–2013).
Jamal Nazrul Islam was born at Jhenaidah District in 1939. His recorded nationality is India. He studied at University of Calcutta and Trinity College.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
The recorded fields of work are theoretical physics.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from India matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jamal Nazrul Islam died in 2013, aged 74. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
- Fields: theoretical physics
