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'''A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar''' (1892–1953)<ref>{{cite book|last=edited by Joseph W. Dauben|first=Christoph J. Scriba|title=Writing the History of Mathematics - Its Historical Development|publisher=Springer|page=315}}</ref> was a [[mathematician]] from India. He got his M.A. in Mathematics at the age of 18 from [[Pachaiyappa's College]] and subsequently started teaching Mathematics there. In 1918 he joined the [[Mathematics]] Department of [[University of Mysore]] and retired from there in 1947. He was born in a [[Tamil language|tamil]] [[brahmin]] family<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ambedkar, Gandhi and the Rise of Subcontinental Philosophy|url=https://thewire.in/society/ambedkar-gandhi-subcontinental-philosophy|access-date=2022-01-27|website=thewire.in|language=en}}</ref> .He died in June 1953. He is the father of the Kannada poet and scholar [[A. K. Ramanujan]].{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}<br />
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==Works==<br />
Ayyangar wrote an article on the [[Chakravala method]] and showed how the method differs from the method of [[continued fraction]]s. He recounted that this point was missed by [[Andre Weil]], who thought that the [[Chakravala method]] was only an "experimental fact" to the Indians and attributed general proofs to [[Fermat]] and [[Lagrange]].<ref>{{cite book|last=edited by B. V. Subbarayappa and N. Mukunda|first=Ramaiyengar Sridharan|author-link=Ramaiyengar Sridharan|title=Science in the West and India|year=1998|publisher=Himalaya Publishing House, [[Bombay]]}}</ref><br />
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Professor [[Subhash Kak]] of [[Louisiana State University]], Baton Rouge first noted that Ayyangar's presentations of Indian works were unique, and was instrumental in bringing it to the notice of the scientific community.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pearce|first=Ian G.|title=Indian Mathematics: Redressing the balance|year=2002|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Pearce/}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Joseph|first=George Ghverghese|title=The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics |year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|title-link=The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.ms.uky.edu/~sohum/AAK/PRELUDE.htm Brief life and some papers]<br />
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