Professor H. M. Srivastava: man and mathematician
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Professor H. M. Srivastava: man and mathematician ˙Ismail Naci Cangül* *
Correspondence: [email protected] Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Uludag˘ University, Görükle Campus, Bursa, 16059, Turkey
Abstract Biography of Professor Hari M. Srivastava. This article is being published in each of the four Special Issues of the SpringerOpen journals, Advances in Difference Equations, Boundary Value Problems, Fixed Point Theory and Applications and Journal of Inequalities and Applications, which are entitled ‘Proceedings of the International Congress in Honour of Professor Hari M. Srivastava’.
1 A brief biographical sketch Professor Hari Mohan Srivastava was born on July , at Karon in Ballia district of the province of Uttar Pradesh in India. His father, Mr. Harihar Prasad (-), was a lawyer practicing in the civil and district courts in Ballia. His mother, Mrs. Bela Devi (-), was remarkably well versed in the Vedic and Hindu religious scriptures, which greatly influenced his childhood and later life spiritually as well as culturally. His father, on the other hand, significantly strengthened his pre-university education, especially in the subjects of English and Mathematics. Having had hardly any formal education at the primary school level, in Professor Srivastava was admitted into grade of the government higher secondary school in Ballia at the age of six after his successful performance in the mandatory written and oral entrance examinations. It is at this school where he was awarded a double promotion from grade to grade , without having to go through grade . This did indeed accelerate his completion of high school (grade ) in . During the next two years (-), he studied at B. N. V. College at Rath in Hamirpur district of the province of Uttar Pradesh, where he completed his I. Sc. in , breaking all the existing academic and scholarly records of that College as well as in other colleges in the region. Professor Srivastava received his university education at the University of Allahabad where he completed his B. Sc. in and M. Sc. in . Besides being a throughout high first class (right from high school () to M. Sc. ()) and meritorious product of the University of Allahabad, and having won a number of merit prizes and scholarships, he was awarded the Allahabad Jubilee Medal in the year . During the period of his fouryear stay at the University of Allahabad (-), Professor Srivastava also published two first-prize-winning short stories in English, which were subsequently translated and published in other Indian languages (especially in Hindi). Professor Srivastava began his university-level teaching career in , at the age of . He taught at D. M. Government College in Imphal (now Manipur University) during the © 2013 Cangül; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestric
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