P Kesava Menon

Puliyakot Keshava Menon 

 

• P Kesava Menon (1917 – October 22, 1979) was a mathematician best known as Director of the Indian Joint Cipher Bureau.
• His sudden demise ended active research in the areas of number theory, combinatorics, algebra and cryptography.
• He was appointed lecturer at the Annamalai University, where he served for two years, before joining the staff of Madras Christian College again as a professor and warden of Seliyur Hall.
• He was devoted to his research work along with teaching, and, in 1948, he submitted his dissertation on "Contributions to the theory of numbers" for which he was conferred the highest and rarest degree of Doctor of Science (DSc).
• He theorized and published the classical inequality theory, which is today known as "Kesava Menon's classical inequality theorem"^. 
• He partnered with the renowned mathematician Ramanujan, on the number theory, as noted here in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society.