Abstract:
This conference was held for four days from 6th to 9th September,1976 at the Institution of Engineers, Mysore. About thirty participants including postgraduate teachers and undergraduate students of promise took
part in the conference. The academic members of the Institute as well as a few scientists from different institutions in India lectured on various topics relating to the theme of the conference.
Inaugurating the conference Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan Director of Matscience observed that these conferences conducted by the Institute every year afford a forum for presentation of original ideas by the younger generation of scientists. In this
conference, work at Matscience relating to new connection between number theory and matrix algebra established by two young scientists Dr.R.Jagannathan (now at St.Joseph's College, Trichy) and Mr.KrishnaSwami Alladi (University of California at Los Angeles)was presented.
