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[[File:BS Madhava_Rao.jpg|thumb|Portrait c. 1950]]
'''Bangalore Srinivasarao Madhava Rao''' (29 May 1900 – 11 June 1987) was an Indian [[mathematician]] and [[physicist]] hailing from [[Chamarajanagar]], [[Karnataka]].

== Biography ==
Rao was born in Chamrajnagar to B. Srinivasa Rao and Rajee Bai. He studied mathematics, receiving his bachelor's degree from Mysore University and obtained his master's degree (1921) and [[Doctor of Science|D.Sc]] (1938)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/15811/3/Chapter1_1-80p.pdf|title=45th Indian Science Congress 1958}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Genealogy of BS Madhava Rao|url=https://www.geni.com/people/B-S-Madhava-Rao/273985|website=www.geni.com|accessdate=4 January 2018}}</ref> from [[University of Calcutta]], the latter for his thesis on "Born's nonlinear field theory". He worked as Professor of Mathematics and later principal at Central college, Bangalore.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/pub/monographs/Introduction/Reminiscence.pdf|title=REMINISCENCES OF A DEFENCE SCIENTIST – A QUEST FOR SELF-RELIANCE - V.Narayanarao}}</ref> He worked as Professor of Ballistics, Institute of Armament Technology, [[Pune]] (1955–60).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianmathsociety.org.in/imspresidents.htm|title=aboutims|website=www.indianmathsociety.org.in|access-date=2017-10-14}}</ref> He worked as Professor of Applied mathematics at the University of Pune from 1960 to 1965.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://archive.is/G73Cl#selection-311.1-310.2|title=INSA|date=2015-05-22|work=archive.is|access-date=2017-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bhavana.timc.org.in/coming-of-age-mathematics-india/|title=The Coming of Age of Mathematics in India – Bhāvanā|website=bhavana.timc.org.in|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014184912/http://bhavana.timc.org.in/coming-of-age-mathematics-india/|archive-date=14 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

His early work was on classical [[algebraic geometry]] and [[analytical dynamics]]. Under the influence of [[Max Born]] and in collaboration with [[C. V. Raman]] and [[Homi J. Bhabha]], Madhava Rao entered the mainstream of [[theoretical physics]]. To deal with the [[divergence problem]] in [[Field (mathematics)|field theory]], Born had introduced a nonlinear theory which received much attention as a model theory. Madhava Rao wrote eight research papers and his doctoral thesis on this work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Other_Publications/Patrika/patrika_16.pdf|title=January 1988 No.16 Newsletter of the Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Madhava Rao|first=B. S.|date=1936|title=Complex representation in Born’s field theory|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF03045716|journal=Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Section A|language=en|volume=4|issue=5|pages=575–589|doi=10.1007/BF03045716|issn=0370-0089}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rao|first=B. S. Madhava|date=1935|title=Über die ein mechanisches System betreffenden Theoreme von Liouville und Stäckel|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF01330115|journal=Zeitschrift für Physik|language=de|volume=93|issue=5-6|pages=320–328|doi=10.1007/BF01330115|issn=1434-6001}}</ref> He was also keenly interested in recreational mathematics and was working on a book on magic squares towards the end of his life.<ref name=":2" />

Madhava Rao, Thiruvenkatachar, and Venkatachala Aiyengar discussed some aspects of [[non-commutative algebra]]s. B. S. Madhava Rao investigated [[algebra of elementary particles]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://estudantedavedanta.net/Cultural_Heritage_Vol_VI.pdf|title=Culture Heritage of India. Vol. VI [Science and Technology] (598p)}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
He was married to Subhadra Bai. Madhava Rao took a keen interest in sports and was a life member of the National Sports Club of India.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|author=Sudarshan, E.C. George|year=1988|title=A Tribute|url=https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Other_Publications/Patrika/patrika_16.pdf|journal=Patrika. Newsletter of the Indian Academy of Sciences|issue=16}}</ref> He died on 11 June 1987.<ref name=":0" />

== Awards and honours ==
* Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize (University of Madras) (1945) - Contributions to Algebra Related to Elementary Particles of Nature.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281873|title=Ramanujan The Man And The Mathematician 1967|last=B Krishnayya}}</ref>
* Fellow, Indian National Science Academy and Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore<ref>[https://www.insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N53-0418 Deceased Fellows]</ref>
* Life Member (President, 1959–61), Indian Mathematical Society and Royal Astronomical Society.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://archive.org/details/bsmadavarao-letters Scanned letters and photos from family archives]
* [https://archive.org/details/thesiscontributi0000bsma Thesis - Contributions To Born's Field Theory]

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