Sarvadaman Chowla

Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla was an English-American mathematician, born in London on 22 October 1907, specializing in number theory. His family returned to India, where he received his master's degree in 1928 from the Government College in Lahore, and in 1931 he received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he studied under J. E. Littlewood. He became head of mathematics at Government College, Lahore in 1936, left for the United States during the difficulties arising from the partition of India in 1947, and moved to Penn State as a research professor in 1963, where he remained until his retirement in 1976. Results bearing his name include the Bruck-Ryser-Chowla theorem, the Ankeny-Artin-Chowla congruence, the Chowla-Mordell theorem and the Chowla-Selberg formula. He died on 10 December 1995.