Pran Ranjan Sengupta (28 August 1938 ― 21 May 2005) alias P. R. Sengupta was an eminent Bengali Mathematician and Scientist.
Early life
editSengupta was born in Barisal in British India. He passed Matriculation in 1951 and I. Sc. in 1953. He completed B. Sc. from City College, Kolkata in 1956 and M. Sc. in 1959 from Calcutta University. In 1963, Sengupta acquired Ph.D. from Jadavpur University.[1] He completed D. Sc. from Kalyani University and joined at Kalyani University in 1966 as a teacher in the Department of Mathematics.[2][3][4]
Career
editProf. Sengupta worked in the field of Continuum mechanics. He published more than one thousand research papers in national and international journals as an active guide of Ph.D scholars.[5][6] He was a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India[7] and Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He became the President of Mathematics Section of Indian Science Congress Association in 1981 and 1996.[8] He founded the Institute of Mechanics of Continua and Mathematical Sciences in 2004.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Our History – Journal". Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ Volume 17 Issue 2, Tapan Das Kumar & P R Sengupta. "Effect of gravity on visco-elastic surface waves in solids involving time rate of strain and stress of first order". ias.ac.in. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Journal of Science and Engineering Research. Indian Institute of Technology. 1965.
- ^ Handbook of Universities. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. 2006. ISBN 978-81-269-0607-9.
- ^ "Shodhganga@INFLIBNET: Browsing Shodhganga". shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "P.R. Sengupta's research works | University of Kalyani, Kalyani and other places". ResearchGate. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ Year Book 2020. "The National Academy of Sciences, India" (PDF). Retrieved 26 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Department of Mathematics". 162.144.89.90. Retrieved 26 April 2021.