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| name = Bhoj Raj Seth<br />
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| caption = Portrait of Seth <br />
| birth_place =Bhura, [[Panjab]], [[Delhi]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1907|08|27}}<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1979|12|12|1907|08|27}}<br />
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| occupation = {{hlist|professor emeritus|lecturer|writer|vice chancellor}}<br />
| education = *[[University of London]] (PhD)<br />
* [[Indian Institute of Technology]] (DSc)<br />
| alma_mater = {{hlist|[[IIT Kharagpur]] (1937)|[[university of London]] (1934)|[[University of Delhi]] (1939)}}<br />
| employer = [[IIT Delhi]]<br />
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| children = [[Kiran Seth]] (son)<br />
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| thesis_title = Finite Strain in Elastic Problems<br />
| thesis_url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/91361<br />
| thesis_year = 1935<br />
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| doctoral_advisor = [[Louis Napoleon George Filon]]<br />
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| era = [[Contemporary philosophy]]<br />
| discipline = <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--><br />
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| workplaces = [[IIT Kharagpur]]<br />
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| main_interests = Elasticity, Plasticity, Fluid Mechanics<br />
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'''Bhoj Raj Seth''' (27 August 1907 – 12 December 1979{{sfn|Bertram|2021|p=104}}), known by his initials '''B. R. Seth''', was an Indian professor of engineering and the father of [[Kiran Seth]].<ref>{{cite web| title= Speaker: Dr. Kiran Seth| url= https://www.iitbbs.ac.in/events-archives.php| work= Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar| quote= ...He was born on 27th April, 1949. His father, Bhojraj Seth, was a mathematician and the first professor at the IIT Kharagpur.| access-date= 26 January 2024| archive-date= 29 September 2023| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230929003345/https://www.iitbbs.ac.in/events-archives.php| url-status= live}}</ref> He was the first vice chancellor of [[Dibrugarh University]] and served in 1966.{{sfn|Mukherji|2022|p=104}} He also worked in [[IIT Kharagpur|Indian Institute of Technology]] in Kharagpur.{{sfn|Mukherji|2022|p=105}}<br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
Seth was born in Bhura, [[Panjab]], [[Delhi]].{{sfn|Mukherji|2022|p=104}}{{refn|group=note|Bhutan has been cited by sources as the birth place of Seth but the correct name is Bhure, a city in [[India]].}} In 1927, he got his bachelor's degree in mathematics. He had his MA degree in the same course from the [[University of Delhi]] in 1929.{{sfn|Mukherji|2022|p= 103}} Seth became an applied mathematics lecturer at [[IIT Kharagpur]].{{sfn|Nambudiripad|2017|p=1-10}}<ref>{{cite web| work= IIT Kharagpur| title= Bhoj Raj Seth| url= https://www.insa.ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1234567/125/BM14_8909.pdf| access-date= 26 January 2024| archive-date= 24 January 2024| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240124200335/http://www.insa.ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1234567/125/BM14_8909.pdf| url-status= dead}}</ref><br />
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The [[Finite strain theory#Seth Hill family of generalized strain tensors|Seth–Hill family of generalized strain tensors]] is named after him and [[Rodney Hill]]. Seth was the editor of the ''Journal of Science and Engineering Research'' of IIT.<ref>Journal of Science and Engineering Research. (1964). India: Indian Institute of Technology.</ref> He died on 12 December 1979.{{sfn|Mukherji|2022|p=109}}<br />
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== Fellowships ==<br />
In 1936, Seth became a fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web| title= Bhoj Raj Seth {{!}} Fellow| url= https://fellows.ias.ac.in/profile/v/FL1936013| work= Indian Academy of Sciences| access-date= 15 January 2024| archive-date= 22 September 2023| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230922013904/https://fellows.ias.ac.in/profile/v/FL1936013| url-status= live}}</ref> He was also a fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]].{{sfn|INSA|1990| p= 143}}<br />
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== Selected publications ==<br />
* {{Cite journal|last= Seth| first= B.R|date= 1939| title= Two Dimensional Potential Problems Connected with Rectilinear Boundaries| location= India| journal= Allahabad Law Journal Press|ref=none}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Poritsky |first=H. |date=July 1942 |title=Review: B. R. Seth, Two-Dimensional Potential Problems Connected with Rectilinear Boundaries |url=https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-mathematical-society/volume-48/issue-7/Review--B-R-Seth-Two-Dimensional-Potential-Problems-Connected/bams/1183504439.full |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume=48 |issue=7 |pages=510 |doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1942-07700-7 |issn=0002-9904}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Seth |first=Bhoj Raj |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-E3AAAAMAAJ |title=Two Dimensional Potential Problems Connected with Rectilinear Boundaries |date=1939 |publisher=Allahabad law journal Press |language=en}}</ref><br />
* Seth, B. R. (1963). Fifty Years of Science in India: Progress of Mathematics. India: [[Indian Science Congress Association]].<br />
* {{Cite journal|last= Seth| first= B.R| date= 1970| title= Aelotropic Yield Condition: Transition Problems of Aelotropic Yield and Creep Rupture| journal= International Centre for Mechanical Sciences| volume= 47| publisher= Springer| location= Vienna|doi= 10.1007/978-3-7091-2818-3_2|ref=none}}<br />
* Seth, B. (1972). Creep Transition in Cylinders: Course Held at the Department for Mechanics of Deformable Bodies June – July 1972. Austria: Springer Vienna.<ref>{{cite book |last=Seth |first=Bhoi Raj |date=1972 |title=Creep Transition in Cylinders |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-7091-2955-5 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-7091-2955-5|isbn=978-3-211-81170-2 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
* Seth, B. R. (1975). Transition Problems of Aelotropic Yield and Creep Rupture: Course Held at the Department for Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, September - October 1970. Austria: Springer Vienna. {{Isbn|9783211810798}}<br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Seth was a recipient of the Leonard Euler Gold Medal of the [[Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union]] in 1958 and the [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]] in 1977.<ref>{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ko3xAAAAMAAJ| title= Gaṇita Bhāratī| date= 1979| location= India| publisher= Indian Society for History of Mathematics| access-date= 26 January 2024| archive-date= 26 January 2024| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240126120543/https://www.google.com.ng/books/edition/Ga%E1%B9%87ita_Bh%C4%81rat%C4%AB/ko3xAAAAMAAJ?hl=en| url-status= live}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Dibrugarh University#Vice Chancellors|Order of Vice Chancellors of Dibrugarh University]]<br />
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* {{Cite book| last= Mukherji| first= P.|date= 2022| title= Notable Modern Indian Mathematicians and Statisticians: During the 19th and 20th Centuries of Bengal| location= South Korea| publisher= Springer Nature Singapore|isbn= 9789811961328}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last= Nambudiripad| first= K.|date= 2017| title= Advanced Mechanics of Solids| location= India|publisher=Alpha Science International Limited|isbn= 9781783324231}}<br />
* {{Cite book| last= Bertram|first=A.|date= 2021| title= Elasticity and Plasticity of Large Deformations: Including Gradient Materials| location= Germany| publisher= Springer International Publishing| isbn= 9783030723286}}<br />
* {{Cite book|author= INSA|title= Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy| date= 1990| location= India}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite book | last=Altenbach | first=Holm | title=Kontinuumsmechanik: Einführung in die materialunabhängigen und materialabhängigen Gleichungen | publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | publication-place=Berlin, Heidelberg | date=2018 | isbn=978-3-662-57504-8 | language=de}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Chattopadhyay | first=Anjana | title=Biographical dictionary of Indian scientists: from ancient to contemporary | publisher=Rupa & Co | publication-place=New Delhi | date=2002 | isbn=978-81-7167-669-9}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://insaindia.res.in/old_website/detail.php?id=N61-0740 Profile of Bhoj Raj Seth on the old website] of [[Indian National Science Academy]]<br />
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=q71UAAAAYAAJ Actes du congrès international des mathématiciens, 1970]<br />
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