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{{short description|Indian mathematician and judge}}
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'''Hoon Balakram''' (1876–1929)<ref name="College2008">{{cite book|author=Thomas Koshy Professor of Mathematics Framingham State College|title=Catalan Numbers with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqPLSivdBDAC&pg=PA69|accessdate=18 July 2013|date=15 November 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-971519-0|pages=69–}}</ref> was an [[India]]n mathematician, civil servant and [[Bombay High Court]] judge.

==Biography==
Balakram was born in [[Jalandhar]], [[Punjab region|Punjab]] in 1876. He received his master's degree from [[Panjab University]] and later passed the [[Cambridge Mathematical Tripos|Mathematical Tripos]] from the [[St John's College, Cambridge]].<ref name="College2008" />

In 1899 he passed the [[Civil Services of India|Indian Civil Service]] examination. Among other posts in his career he was appointed a [[Bombay High Court]] judge in 1929 a month before his death.<ref name="College2008" /> He also served as the president of [[Indian Mathematical Society]] from 1921 to 26.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Succession List of the Office-Bearers of The Succession List of the Office-Bearers of The Indian Mathematical Society|url=http://www.indianmathsociety.org.in/|publisher=[[Indian Mathematical Society]]}}</ref>

==Mathematical achievements==
Balakram proved in 1929<ref name="College2008" /> that the expression <math>{(2n)! \over (n+1)! (n+1)!}</math> is an integer for infinitely many values of <math>n.</math> He further showed that the expression is an integer for only eight values of <math>n\le 100</math>, namely, {{num|5}}, {{num|14}}, {{num|27}}, {{num|41}}, {{num|44}}, {{num|65}}, {{num|76}}, and {{num|90}}.

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