Mathematics
The department was nurtured in its infancy by Prof. Raghava Sastry, P.R. Vittal and other mathematicians hail from the college. Vittal who was a Vivekananda student later became a lecturer in the mathematics department, then head of the mathematics department, and then principal of the college. Areas of research in the department are Number Theory, Applied Statistics, Representation Theory, Algebra, Functional Analysis, Topology and Algebraic Geometry. The department conducts monthly seminars and colloquiums and hosts a yearly international conference in a particular area of Mathematics. It has funding and support from the UGC, National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India and Govt. of Tamil Nadu. About 30 international papers are submitted from the mathematics department of Vivekananda college.
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