Proceedings of the second conference on number theory: Ootacamund, 3-7, August, 1980 [MatSciRep: 104]

Abstract

This MATSCIENCE REPORT presents the Proceedings of the "Second Conference on Number Theory" conducted by Matscience at the Hindustan Photo Films Club House, Ootacamund, during August 3-7, 1980. This conference is the 38th in the series of conferences conducted by Matscience on a wide range of topics in mathematical sciences. The conference was inaugurated by Mr.P.R.S.Rao, the Managing Director, Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Company Limited, and Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan, Director, Matscience, released the Matscience Report on the Proceedings of the First Conference on Number Theory held at Mysore in August 1979. Professor K.Ramachandra of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay and Dr.Krishnaswami Alladi of the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan were the principal speakers at the conference. The present report contains the papers in Number Theory contributed by the participants arranged according to the alphabetical order of the names of the authors except for the problems and some papers at the end which are of an interdisciplinary nature.